On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> Notice how the minor number jumps from 0 to 64.
>
> This would allow /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda63, and /dev/hdb1 through
> /dev/hdb63, etc.
>
> Now do the same for sda and sdb:
>
> # ls -la /dev/sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2002-03-14 16:51 /dev/sda
> # ls -la /dev/sdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2002-03-14 16:51 /dev/sdb
>
> Notice how the minor number jumps from 0 to 16.
>
> This effectively means that you _are_ limited to 15 partitions:
> /dev/sda1 through /dev/sda15.
I never even imagined it would be that lower than IDE.
--Steve Szmidt
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