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Re: Installing a big hard disk
« on: December 20, 2012, 01:16:31 AM »
Quote from: psxphill;719751
At the factory they can bootstrap a drive from scratch


Can you explain that? ;)

Especially if it helps to start a drive with a controller from another drive.
 

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Re: Installing a big hard disc
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2012, 03:32:50 PM »
TD64 is then the API definition of the driver? that makes it possible to write a drive oneself.

Which leaves the SCSI controller chip. Does the chip limit the length of the SCSI commands in a way that larger drives will be limited?
(read6 - 1 GB, read10 - 2 TB, read16 - 8 388 608 PiB)
 

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Re: Installing a big hard disc
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2012, 05:15:52 PM »
What is the free partitioning tool of choice?