Adaptec 2940UW

#1

What is the maximum size hard drive that can be handled by the 2940UW?

#2

At Tue, 22 May 2007 12:26:06 -0400 "Howard Kaikow" <kaikow (AT) standards (DOT) com> wrote:

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What is the maximum size hard drive that can be handled by the 2940UW?

A 2940UW can handle as large a drive as the SCSI protocol can handle.
That is, you cannot get a *SCSI* hard drive that is too big for a 2940UW
to handle.

That said, there are any number of possible limitations with either the
BIOS of some *older* PCs and/or the driver software running on various
operating systems that might have some limits on the maximum size hard
drive(s) that can be supported by the host system the 2940UW is plugged
into.

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"Robert Heller" <heller (AT) deepsoft (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

A 2940UW can handle as large a drive as the SCSI protocol can handle.
That is, you cannot get a *SCSI* hard drive that is too big for a 2940UW
to handle.

Correct, but external RAID can be bigger than 2TB.

Quote:

That said, there are any number of possible limitations with either the
BIOS of some *older* PCs and/or the driver software running on various
operating systems that might have some limits on the maximum size hard
drive(s) that can be supported by the host system the 2940UW is plugged
into.

Nonsense. The PC BIOS has no effect on SCSI. Every OS supports 2TB.

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