Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?]

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From: rberkley
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <43lf52$bhu@News1.mcs.net>, itsinc@mcs.com writes:
>	I found some more sources, and it seems we may have ALL been 
>wrong >"IBM-compatible HPFS volumes use a sector size of 512 bytes and have a maximum
>size of 2199Gb (2" sectors)."
>
>	Now, this may be a theoretical limit, I suppose...but if there are people 
>formatting 9 GB drives that's good enough for me.  :)

	Well, OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 had that 2gig limit on hpfs. However, that weakness is
one of the biggest user gripes IBM addressed in WARP and, I think, the 2nd fixpack
for OS/2 2.1 (OS/2 2.11).

Rich


Richard Berkley
Univ. of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI
rberkley@students.wisc.edu

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