"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
yazdi:bnqfte$q68$4@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> On 10/29/2003 9:32 PM, Haluk wrote:
>
> > "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?
>
> Hell, I remember 8" floppies.

I meant no offense sir... :)