On Wednesday 27 June 2001 14:30, Terry wrote:
> I was curious ...
>
> I was watching "The Screensavers" on TechTV last night, when they
> aired a segment from the PC Expo in New York City. The reporter
> there was talking about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold
> 100 GB of data. He also mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT,
> 2000) uses 24-bit addressing, only allowing windows to recognize a
> single drive of 137 GB max.
>
> That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux
> would recognize?
128 Gb
It is related to hardware addressing schemes on the IDE drives. There
is essentailly no limit for SCSI.
Civileme
