Re: Help! need large (>1Gb) SCSI drives (sun-spots digest v09n051)

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From: Daniel Strick
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 11:25

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You are about to descend into what may well become the most majestic can
of worms to be opened in SCSI history.  One gigabyte is the magic capacity
at which SCSI disk drives formatted with 512 byte sectors will overflow
the 21 bit disk address field in the traditional six-byte SCSI read/write
commands for direct access devices.  Many SCSI device drivers will not
automatically switch to the ten-byte commands with 32 bit address fields.
They will silently truncate ...

  Have a nice day.

Dan Strick, aka dan@bellcore.com or bellcore!dan, (201)829-4624

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From: dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)
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Subject: Re: Help! need large (>1Gb) SCSI drives (sun-spots digest v09n051)
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