137gb barrier

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Back in the Olden days, the originial Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface(ATAPI) or Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) all used a 28 bit addressing mode. That allowed for the addressing of 268, 435, 456 and 512 byte sectors only (128GiB or 137 GB). The newer speicifications allow 48 bit addressing, this extends the limit to 128 PiB or 144 petabytes because the doubling of the bit rate in exponential!!

1 petabit = 1 x 10 to the 15th bits = 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits. 6 bits per byte = 166,666,666,666,666 mB x 128 = 144,000,000,000,000,000 MB or 144,000,000,000,000 Gb. Holy Crap Batman!!!!! Now go ahead and fill up that drive!!!!!! LOL!!!
Yea like the 144 trillion Gb drive limit wil be to small exactly when? Hehehehehehehe!!!
 
hi guy, i am new here and have been looking for a solution to my problem. I have just bought a new Hitachi 250GB Deskstar T7K50, and am running it as my slave drive with my Maxtor 130GB master, and as seems to be the problem with this big drives is that windows cannot recognise it in "My computer", although the drive does show up in device manager, and also within the bios. I have Windows XP service pack 2, and the HDInfo utiltiy recognises the drive.
Here is the rest of my setup, can anyone please help!

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Gigabyte NF-CK804 MOBO
Bios release date 12/17/2004
1GB DDR RAM
 
Partitioning hard drives larger than 137GB

Originally posted by H4x3r
To avoid problems, partition your hard disks with 137gb or less.

H4x3r, are you recommending that I partition my new WD 250GB hard drive with something like Partition Magic?

I just installed it yesterday and I have the 137GB (acturally 127) limitation as well....and I don't have SP1 or SP2 installed.

I prefer going the simple route and if partitioning the hard drive is the simple route....that's what I'll do. Is there any free partitioning software out there?

I've read elsewhere that large hard drives should be partitioned in smaller drives to prevent problems.
 
It's a disk size limit, not partition size limit. I don't think you can see a 60GB partition on a 137GB+ hard disk if you don't have LBA 48bit enabled.
 
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