[Cialug] Tanenbaum on Storage Technology

[Todd Walton]

Which is what?  I have trouble finding on the nets a reference for what the
heck ATA-ACS-8 is.  Is it ATA-8?

--
Todd



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net
> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:37:58PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
> > "By this time, the 128-GB limit imposed by the 28-bit LBA addresses was
> > looming larger and larger, so ATAPI-6 changed the LBA size to 48 bits.
>  The
> > new standard will run into trouble when disks reach 2^48 x 2^9 bytes (128
> > PB).  With a 50% annual increase in capacity, the 48-bit limit will
> > probably last until about 2035.  To find out how the problem was solved,
> > please consult the 11th edition of this book."
>
> In ATA-ACS-8 they've already introduced a mechanism to have logical
> sectors be more than 2^9 bytes.  2^12 might be typical within a
> decade or two.
>
>         Jonathan Kollasch
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