From: John Duthie <beyondgeek@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SATA - SCSI Partition limit
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:19:23 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0fbeec4050614151973f0eec7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Problem:
Need to simulate CDs shares on a linux/samba File server... has a
120 GB SATA drive in there ...
( linux-2.6.10 )
long story ...
Shares had the wrong size for the evil VB program
(Tried mounting *.iso via loopbak - it didn't like it )
Windows boxes that work just have lots of 700 mb partitions ( 4
x extended with 6 or 7 logical in each )
SO i thought "I know I'll just make lots of partitions" oops ,
SCSI sub system only allows 15 Drives
So now I could "Boot 2.6.11ac7 on it and specify the boot option
"all-generic-ide" " which worked wonders last time i had a problem
(Thanks Alan) because ide will allow more than 15 partitions.
But the machine is now about 500 km away from me and changing a
linux system to boot from scsi to ide over ssh is not my idea of fun,
1 typo and I've got a long drive ahead :-(,
are there any hard reasions for the 15 partition limit on scsi (
other than lots of dev files )
how much work would a patch to halve the number of /dev/sd? files
and double the /dev/sd?[12]? files ( same number of devices
minor/major ) ?
I'm sure this will be a problem more people have as the SATA drives
get bigger.......
TIA
next reply other threads:[~2005-06-14 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-14 22:19 John Duthie [this message]
2005-06-14 22:28 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-06-14 22:29 ` Måns Rullgård
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