OPENSTEP and Large IDE HDs
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I have OS 4.2 with patch 4. I get a 10GB IDE drive in it and OS won't
recognize it as 10GB. So I had to shrink the OS space to 8GB and the
other 2 GB wasted. The entire 8GB space is partitioned as one 4GB, two
2GB partitions. This is done by using "disk" shell command.
Still not sure if OS can access more than the first 8GB space on the
same HD....
He...@koplien.de
Yes, but only SCSI! (So 8GB is the limit for IDE)
Applies for SCSI only:
I would recommand to make your own disktab entry. I have a 36GB in a
black NeXT, making use of 7 partitions of 4GB each. This also works out
perfectly on white boxes. For NeXTStep this is limited to 7 partitions of
2GB each, but I use e.g. the same 36GB disks (but 7 in total yielding
~100GB diskspace).
Henry
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What data do you have to use 100GB storage for NeXT?!
He...@koplien.de
E.g. music, films (xvids with 2 GB each), a lot several space by
documents and foils, and at the moment still spare space. I also run a
redmont box with 0,5TB of converted films in MPEG4 coded with 2Mbit/s.
100GB is really no problem to fill up. My VideoStream player plays a
couple of formats...
Henry
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:> What data do you have to use 100GB storage for NeXT?!
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: E.g. music, films (xvids with 2 GB each), a lot several space by
: documents and foils, and at the moment still spare space. I also run a
: redmont box with 0,5TB of converted films in MPEG4 coded with 2Mbit/s.
: 100GB is really no problem to fill up. My VideoStream player plays a
: couple of formats...
: Henry
Thanks to the nfs-Capability, you're not really confined to even 100GB
on a NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP-machine, when you're using another machine as the
server. Also we didn't fill up so much space yet, even 1.5TB don't seem
to become a problem. Apart from the nfs-cookie-problem error on NS/OS'ses
part there seems to be no such hard limit as the 2/4/8GiBytes on physically
attached storage devices.
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
He...@koplien.de
Hi Ruediger,
you are absolutely right.