Author: The Paranoid (p54AECA9E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: 10-25-2006 20:38
Well, you can always partition a drive to only use a
certain segment of it, but the problem may indeed
be the block size:
Since basically all SCSI drives are preformatted and
do not allow low level formatting, they have a fixed
block size and some SCSI adapters have problems
with certain block sizes.
Worst example is probably the original Atari MegaSTE
host adapter which only works with a block size of
8 KBytes.
Not all "small" drivers have "small" block sizes and not
all "big" drives have "big" block sizes, but of course,
chances that a 2 Gig drive has a 4KB block sizes are
lower than a 200MB Drive to have 4KB Block size.
That's at least what i heard.
The Paranoid
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