Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, David W Noon did opine thusly:
> >Errm, not exactly. SCSI/SATAs are limited to 15 (inc. one extended > >partition) and old (legacy driven) IDEs are limited to some 63 > >partitions if I recall correctly. If you use the new libata I think > >you only get 15 partitions for SATA/PATA. > > Well that's a software limitation. I am a little surprised that > the limit is so small, as Windows can support 24 drive letters > (C: through Z:) assigned to hard drive partitions. Of course, > accessing the CD-ROM would then be a bit sporty under Windows. Not quite, you are confused. That's 24 'drives" of all kinds spread across all kinds: removeable media hard disks (all partitions) full disk (without partitions) network drives "$other_stuff" (a catchall for anything else MS might dream up). 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life, and it's a hardware limitation not a software one so the driver can't be updated for this. 24 drive letters has *nothing* to do with partition number limits. They are not even vaguely related. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
