SCSI partitions
Does anyone remember the reason why SCSI drives were limited to 15 partitions?
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Does anyone remember the reason why SCSI drives were limited to 15 partitions?
Because of the limitations of having 8-bit major/minor device numbers.
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Brian Gerst
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in part it is due to the major/minor split which only gives 4 bits for the partition number.
if you use devfs or LVM this limit is removed.
David Lang
Quoted 5 lines · On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [email protected] wrote:
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:10:41 -0800
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Subject: SCSI partitions
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Does anyone remember the reason why SCSI drives were limited to 15 partitions?
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