Re: max hd capacity

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 11:39

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In article <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com> steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats) writes:
> It`s worth mentioning that this limit is per-partition, not a total limit.
> You could conceivably hook up 56 disks each with a capacity of 2 Gigabytes
> to each SCSI controller card in the system.

More than that, no? You can have much larger disks, I would assume, if you
partition them. How many partitions can you have on a disk? (I would guess
that it would at least be limited by the screen resolution in the disk setup
program).

> Let`s just say that the Amiga can cope with more hard disk space than
> anyone is ever going to need.....and see which year I`m proven wrong :-)

Just wait until someone needs a single file over 2G.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: max hd capacity
Keywords: hard disk, maxtor
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Date: 3 Oct 90 11:39:23 GMT
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