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In a message dated 9/12/2005 11:33:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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You can also use the vendors software and make multiple partitions under
137GB. I have a 160GB drive running on a p1 using 2 x 80mb partitions.
It has been there well over a year and no problems.
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David
Hi,
If the system doesn't support drives larger than 137GB (i.e. no 48 bit
addressing), then it doesn't matter how you partition the drive, it simply runs
out of addresses at 137GB. You just haven't filled the drive up enough to run
into this limit yet.
Once you do, you will start corrupting files below the 137GB limit, as the
addressing 'wraps around' back to zero and starts overwriting files there,
instead of above the 137GB point...been there, done that...I have saved all my
CD's as WAVs (for home use) and as MP3's (for portable use)...the MP3's take
up about 40GB, but the WAV's are almost 400GB. When I first started ripping
to a 250GB drive, I had the file corruption happen when I hit the 137GB mark,
so I tried repartitioning it...no improvement. I had to get an IDE card that
supported large drives to use the space above 137GB.
Now I have a 1.2 terabyte RAID setup (four 400GB drives in RAID 5), so I
have LOTS more room for future expansion...:)
HTH,
Peter Hogan
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