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At 08:57 AM 9/18/2003, David Lesher wrote: Are you asking? :) It would by my count be the 137.4GB limit of LBA28 which was already corrected with LBA48 if your motherboard supports it. Maybe you haven't had to use an IDE drive that large yet. ;)Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > > > Hello all, > > Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking > about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if any of you > had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about. I'll start > with a couple. 1) The slide lock on transceiver cables. 2) Intel's+IBM's "640K" wall. 3) IDE addressing standards. (We've been through the 528 MB, 2.1 GB, 4.2 GB, 8.4 GB caps.... what's next?) There may have been another limitation in there on IDE that I'm missing in some form... As a sidenote, MS (in trying to phase out FAT32 in favor of NTFS) started limiting the creation of FAT32 drives allowing a maximum of only 32GB in Windows 2000, but that doesn't really bother me. :) Vinny Abello Network Engineer Server Management [email protected] (973)300-9211 x 125 (973)940-6125 (Direct) PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
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