[CUBE] No It Does Not Work! Bogus "Loophole" Does Not Overcome 128 GB HD Limit In Cubes

[Kunga]

I agree completely. I woke up realizing this and have posted a very 
embarrassing retraction on the Cube-Zone site. My enthusiasm for this 
possibility overran my logic that this could not be so. Thank you for 
your compassionate and wise reply Allan.

The discrepancy between the "Capacity" number in the fourth partition 
and the "Available" number is exactly the 128 GB limit vs the drive 
size. I should have realized that right from the start. Triple "duh" to 
me.

So Nic from Italy, your friend is wrong. And I was even wronger for 
reporting he was right.

k

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On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 06:26  AM, Allan Hise wrote:

> It is probably because large drives (>128 GB or whatever the magic 
> number
> is...) require extra bits to address the data greater than that magic
> number. The Cube's bus doe not have those bits, so it can't access that
> data. The drive was partitioned in a systhem that is capable of seeing 
> the
> whole drive. The partition map is stored in very low addresses, so the
> cube can see it and tries to use it as is.  Disk Utitlity is trying to
> tell you that the partition map sees a big ol hunk of drive space free,
> but it can't really talk to most of it.
>
> My guess is that once you fill up the addressable space, depending on 
> how
> smart the OS is, you'll either be told the disk is full or you will 
> have
> file corruption and / or lost files. And, as previous posters have 
> noted,
> you may totally hose things when you run a disk utility, once again, 
> based
> on how smart the programmers made it to deal with situations like this.
>
> Allan
>
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kunga wrote:
>
>> OK so each partition in Disk Utility shows capacities correctly until 
>> I
>> get to the fourth one when it says
>> Capacity 22.73 GB
>> Available 127.57 GB
>>
>> So what's up with that discrepancy? Does that mean it won't take more
>> than 22.73 GB of stuff before it explodes? Or what?
>>
>> k