From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: That SCSI disk limit corruption issue Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:06:42 -0700 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 vieodclips 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*.
Okay Bruce, I got it. Thanks for the heads up! Saved my bacon and wallet!
Subject: Re: That SCSI disk limit corruption issue Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:02:12 -0500 From: Dan K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can I suggest another, _safer_ solution? An inexpensive ethernet PC card would give you the speed you crave without significantly endangering your 30GB drive. The well known >4GB SCSIDisk bug will almost certainly find a way to hose your 'Book's drive at some point regardless of how careful you are to write inside the drive's first 4 gigs. As others have noted, the 4 gig issue remains no matter how you've partitioned the drive. Plus, you'll be pleased to know enet file copies are nearly as fast (faster even maybe?) as you'd get using the scsi-disk method, the scsi bus on these old 'Books is _very_very_ slow. Does the 6320 have an ethernet card? If no, you can use either an LC-slot enet card or (both can be used at once actually!) a CommSlot 1 card. Either type costs very little nowadays. For a PCcard the 3com 589 series are dirt cheap too, hacked driver should work great on a 190 (I forget the url for the driver, search the PB-list archives for 3com and/or 589.) Dan K
Thanks Dan! Your solution seems the ticket to my quandary! The 6320 has an LC slot and a Comm slot for Ethernet. I hope there's a single source where I can find both the ethernet PC card and the 6320 one, so everyone I'm open to recommendations!
JimWG
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