On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:59, John Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:52:27AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
> > Depending on which web page you read, the limits are something like 23
> > for DOS/Windows (it's an alphabet thing, ie 26 - 3),
>
> I'd expect 26 - 2 (`A' and `B'), and the limit would be total number of
> partitions in the system, not the number on any one drive.
>
> > 63 for IDE drives under Linux and 15 for SCSI drives under Linux.
*snip*
> So the kernel supports up to 63 partitions on an IDE drive, and 15 on a
> SCSI drive.
I know that the SCSI limitation was mainly due to, er.. poor design of
the SCSI system in 2.2. (part of the reason behind The Great SCSI
Rewrite of 2.4) I don't know how close this is to being rectified,
though.
But is the IDE limitation in the kernel, or a hardware limit?
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