"Fabian" <lajzar@hotmail.com>, haber iletisinde ?unlar?
yazd?:bno6ck$11c1m9$1@ID-174912.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Haluk hu kiteb:
>
> > "Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jmdesp@alussinan.org>, haber iletisinde
> > sunlari yazdi:bno0q3$4ld$1@reader1.imaginet.fr...
> >> SR wrote:
> >>> The "Computer Management" reports the HD as 128 GB   and
> >>> Partition Magic shows it as 131 GB.
> >>> 185.2 GB is written on the hard disk...
> >>
> >> So you go with your 180 Gb disk, but you've been hitting the LBA
> >> adressing limits of 128 Gb.
> >>
> >> Back in 94 when disks were beginning to hit the 512 Mo limit, LBA was
> >> something revolutionnary designed to avoid this kind of problem,
> >> ever, imagine this, it would go up to 128 Gb !
> >
> > Isn't it somewhat dumb to manufacture 180Gb HDs when there is 128Gb
> > limit? just thinking out loud
>
> I imagine it was also somewhat dumb to build massive 1GB drives when
> there was a 512MB limit.
>

I may be wrong here but I think they have increased the limit (to 2Gb per
partition for Fat32) than introduced 1GB harddrives. Not sure though, it's
been so long time. Ahh, floppy days, test drive, packman. Anyone remember
5.25" floppies?