AmigaDos 1.3 disk limits

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From: Donald_B_Phillips
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 09:40

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Does anybody know what the maximum block number is for a hard disk?  I've got
a Maxtor 8760S drive (which I finally got to work with the A2090 controller)
and can only address about 1250 cylinders out of a possible 1632.  The drive
has 15 heads & 54 sectors per track, which is what I'm using in the mountlist.

The drive is a SCSI device.  Am I possibly hitting some other limit for
sectors/track or cyliders?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Donald_B_Phillips@cup.portal.com

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Subject: AmigaDos 1.3 disk limits
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