Re: 1+ gbyte disk problem

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From: Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wa...
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 18:02

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In article <1992Oct7.090036.1@vax1.tcd.ie>, eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
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>Hi,
>Does anybody know if there are problems in using a 1.2gigabyte disk
>on a DECstation 2100 running Ultrix 4.0?

Quoting from the ULTRIX FAQ.

"16. Why doesn't ULTRIX 4.1 work with disks bigger than 1.2GBytes?

There is a bug in the V4.1 SCSI driver that will only allow it to read
something like (2 ** 21) or (2 ** 20) LBNs.  After that it wraps
around to the beginning of the disk.  It is fixed in V4.2."

The problem would also occur in any version before V4.1.

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>Thanks in advance . . .
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>eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie
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>Eugene O'Rourke
>Trinity College Dublin  
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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com

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From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
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Subject: Re: 1+ gbyte disk problem
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