[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Mon May 8 10:19:15 CDT 2006


while we're being thorough...

" From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
" 
" > Yeah, there have been plenty of "glass ceilings" along the way:
" 
" There's one missing here:
" 
" > 33 MB (DOS FAT partition limitation IIRC)

this was fat16.  there was an earlier fat12, though it may have been a
subset.

" > 520 MB (BIOS limitation)
" 1GB (6-byte SCSI CDBs)
" > 8.4 GB (legacy INT13 limitation; solved by LBA)
" > 128 GB (LBA limitation; solved by LBA48)
" > 2.0 T (32-bit block numbering limitation (2^32 * 512k = 2.0 T) and MBR partitioning limit; solved by GPT)
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