14th January 2004, 10:16 PM
Well, both FAT32 and NTFS support that as the max, I think. I'm fairly sure most OSs that support those would have that as their max inherently.
And, I was thinking it's not that it's partitioned as one in the OS itself, but rather it's setup that way on the device, so the computer isn't even aware of it. That's why I said invisibly. So, the computer would access the external storage device the same way as anything else, and the device itself would then shuffle between the various disks it MAY have to locate the data. I imagine that the table of contents would either be stored outside those disks or on disk "a" (or however they labelled them). Of course I'm just coming up with this theory as I go.
And, I was thinking it's not that it's partitioned as one in the OS itself, but rather it's setup that way on the device, so the computer isn't even aware of it. That's why I said invisibly. So, the computer would access the external storage device the same way as anything else, and the device itself would then shuffle between the various disks it MAY have to locate the data. I imagine that the table of contents would either be stored outside those disks or on disk "a" (or however they labelled them). Of course I'm just coming up with this theory as I go.
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