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Win XP x86 detects 8TB USB 3.1 HDD

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First post, by Jo22

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:17

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Hi everyone,
Just noticed that my old copy of Windows XP SP2 can still handle my newest Terabyte HDD..

While I knew that USB/ATA bridges are a special case and do work with TB capacity, I haven't expected this.

The official requirements on the HDDs package do start with Win 7..

Anyway, I'm happy that there's hope.
Let's just do cross our fingers that there's no data corruption happening.

Best regards,
Jo22

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Reply 1 of 2, by weedeewee

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:50

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That's what you gotta love about windows, and android, and macos... even if you're using the disk only to read off some data, the os will still write to it and possibly fubar it.

I know dos doesn't do it, linux didn't used to do it, probably depends on distribution these days, wonder if os2 does it. oh well.

good luck

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Reply 2 of 2, by jmarsh

Posted on 2021-04-22, 00:21

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The READ16/WRITE16 commands (that are used when max LBA exceeds 32-bit) have been part of the SCSI command set for a long time.

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