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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@ALCATEL.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise)
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>when, if, such ddevices become available for the scsi bus will
>the end user require doing anything special, ummm, that is take
>sepcial measures like your  proposing for the 'ide' type bus
>version of these large drive devices ?

SCSI went though it's `disks are too big to use' stage at ~1GB - the
original SCSI DA read/write commands only allowed a 21-bit LBA.  The
next problem will occur at 2^32 blocks (about 2TB), which is still a
few years off for bare disks, though it may be a problem for RAID
controllers before then.

Peter


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