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Post #19 by johnklos
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateTue, 22 Sep 2009 - 07:18
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/largest-hard-drive-in-a-630.12469/
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Please do. The limit on m68k Mac IDE is 128 gigs due to the fact that the IDE of the time supported 28 bit addressing giving 2^28 (268,435,456) sectors of 512 bytes each for 137,438,953,472 bytes total, or 128 gigabytes, or what some people nowadays call 128 gibibytes.

IDE drives with 48 bit addressing can access 2^57 bytes (2^48 + 9 bits in a sector), or 144,115,188,075,855,872 bytes, or 128 petabytes.

Not sure where the 4 terabyte number comes from, since legacy SCSI is limited to 2 terabytes... But I'd love to learn more, especially if I'm wrong!

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