Date:  Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:34:21 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: up2tbflt breaks the 502 GB dasd limit.


From:  Gankov <admin at pilot-film.com> on Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:38:37 UTC
  Posted on: comp.os.os2.bugs

As for the huge disks, with capacity more then 502 GB:
Here is
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=up2tbflt> 
FLT that solves that limit. New limit is 2 Terrabytes :)

Tested with external SCSI raid with ~570 GB capacity.

"Currently OS/2 DASD subsystem doesn't support disks with capacity more
than 502 Gb. DaniS506.ADD, the great driver by Daniela Engert
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506), may be used for
huge IDE/ATA drives to avoid 502 Gb size limitation. But there is no
solution for large SCSI RAID devices. 

up2TB.flt driver allows to use in OS/2 hard disks of any types with
capacity up to 2 Terabytes (actually up to 2032 Gb). This is not real disk
controller driver, but so-called filter driver, that works with native
hardware .ADD driver. up2TB.flt simply alters CHS disk geometry
information passed to system (actually to OS2DASD.DMD) so the whole disk
capacity may be successfully used in OS/2. 

Currently only non-removable HDDs are supported."

Alex G.


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