[Lilux-help] external hard drive enclosure

[Jay Christnach]

For usb you can find the specs for the mass storage class here:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs
I hope you like to read standards :-)

They certainly have reserved enough bits in the protocol to allow for 
huge LBA-numbers. Maybe the commands are even transported transparently, 
so the adressable size would only depend on the driver software.

Don't know much about it though, just my 5 cents.

Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking into buying an external hard drive enclosure with
> USB2 & firewire ports, for fitting with an IDE or SATA 3.5" drive.
> 
> I've been doing some research, but I've nowhere found information
> on the maximum capacity these things support - I imagine the
> IDE-to-USB-or-Firewire bridge would be subject to the same sort
> of limitations we've seen over the years with the PC BIOS.
> Can anyone point me to more info?
> 
> TIA, Eric
> 
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