[iyonix-support] Re: Max external USB disc size

On 20 Jul, Paul Vigay  wrote:

> Is the Iyonix limited to the size of external USB drive it can access?

> My dad has just bought an external USB drive of 250GB. I just formatted it
> for him, using !SCSIForm, which correctly read the disc size and
> parameters, initialising the drive fine.

> On dismounting and re-mounting it appears on the iconbar with 233GB
> available space.

> All appears to work ok. Is this likely to cause problems later? Should I
> have formatted it to a smaller size? I know internal drives have a 128GB
> limit (if you want DMA) but I wasn't sure about external USB ones....?

Surely you are aware of the concept of "marketing" GigaBytes? I would 
think that the advertised 250GB is made up of these, where a MB is 
1000 bytes, and a GB is 1000 of those - making the drive 250*1000*1000 
bytes, or around 233GB in real money...
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Brian Howlett
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