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Re: Big disks on Adaptec 2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andries Brouwer)
Wed Mar 19 18:10:18 1997
From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:53:31 GMT
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"Clem Pryke" <pryke@hep.uchicago.edu> writes:
: I find in the Linux doc statements that "in principle max linux partition
: size is 1 Terabyte. However on Adaptec web page I find "Hard Disk
: Capacity: Extended translation supports drive capacity up to 8 GBytes
: per disk"
: Can anyone who is using 8 GB+ disks with Linux please confirm that this
: limit does not apply for the 2940, or if it does which cards do not
: have this limitation?
There is no conflicting statement.
Extended Translation supports drive capacity up to 8 GB,
but you do not need Extended Translation, and have support up to at least 1 TB.
