SUMMARY CORRECTION: Hard disk size limits, Seagate 3.6GB disk

From: Tom R. Loden *8^0 (loden@ll.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 25 1993 - 10:36:06 CST


To beat a mole hill ... or um ... to make a mountain out of a dead horse,
what I meant to say is of course:

   1. The sector size is 512 bytes, NOT 512K.
   2. SunOS uses an 'int' to hold the file size limit, thus each partition must
      be less than 2^31 bytes ( = 2.147 GB ).
   3. ( 2^31 / 512 ) - 1 = 4194303 = max number of sectors per partition.

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