Seagate 23 GByte drives on DUnix systems?

From: Mark Bartelt <mark_at_cita.utoronto.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:54:44 -0400

I see that Seagate now has a 23 GByte version of their Elite
series drives. We're thinking about getting one of these for
one of our au-series personal workstations. But before we go
ahead, there are a couple things we'd like to find out ...

(1) What's the maximum size of a UFS filesystem these days?
I presume that DUnix doesn't have a problem with filesystems
that large, but I can't find anything in the SPD which tells
what the maximum actually is.

(2) Aside from the DUnix filesystem issues, are there any
hardware-related issues to be aware of? (I'm thinking, of
course, of the recently-discussed problems with some types
of 9 GByte drives with Digital-supplied Adaptec SCSI cards.)
Has anyone actually hooked one of these beasts up to any type
of DUnix system (and, specifically, a PW)?

Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for mark_at_cita.utoronto.ca
Theoretical Astrophysics http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~mark

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