On Feb 27, 2004, at 7:11 AM, jimwg wrote:
Okay, please help me here. Are you saying that if you just work with files over 4gigs you're in trouble or what? My largest files are vieod clips of 250megs. Doesn't the ROM see a partition is a separate drive or the whole basket? My HD is already formatted into 3.2 gig chunks, so it it doesn't really matter, right?
No.
The disk controller sees a drive as a single device. Partitions are an OS-level convenience.
With SCSI target disk mode, *on a susceptible machine* the moment you write beyond 4GB of data to a device, it wraps around to the beginning of the device and continues writing.
The size of the partition doesn't matter. The size of the file doesn't matter. It's the size of the *device*.
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