Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:11:05 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@ALCATEL.COM.AU> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise) Message-ID: <00Jan4.121107est.40331@border.alcanet.com.au>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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