"Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> said:

>"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... :)

You don't know what I would have given for an 8"
floppy this afternoon!


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