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Re: Big disks on Adaptec 2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Milz)
Thu Mar 20 15:43:49 1997
From: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:24:01 +0100
From: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Big disks on Adaptec 2940
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Organization: Linux.DE
Clem Pryke (pryke@hep.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>
> 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?
This is not a controller but an operating system issue, especially
DOS/BIOS which doesn't support more than 1023 cylinders. Linux runs with
a 22 Gig ext2 filesystem just fine as could just be read in the April
issue of c't magazine. I have sincere reason to believe they are right :-)
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