From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261381AbVFNWTm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:19:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261385AbVFNWTm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:19:42 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]:58127 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261381AbVFNWTX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:19:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Ai0bs2h6/cPBf2vkncsUjog0tedaROSjrvzk/iIbBmxs3xwsFzgLWN+SOSAug3pv4SPfdnvEVfo3K6dNf8qzhC4C8kPBPw6d1NnG9LvbDf3US5Lq2lHeJgDxNJuIQIBQkznlTHJ77mGwBW9ePv31nmxI7avuai0sqDp8N/Mj/uw= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:19:23 +1200 From: John Duthie Reply-To: John Duthie To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: SATA - SCSI Partition limit Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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