dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) (02/23/90)
Original-posting-by: dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick) Original-subject: Re: Help! need large (>1Gb) SCSI drives (sun-spots digest v09n051) Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) 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