I believe that it's a hard-limit due to the 8bit nature of the scsi drivers.
You can have up to 16 devices and 16 partitions for each device. Since you
have only 256 max possibilities you are limited. (16*16=256).
Now, I remember that I saw a patch a while ago that cut down the number of
partitions to give you more scsi devices I think it was 32 disks, with 8
partitions each. If you could do it one way you should be able to do
the reverse (sacrifice disks for partitions). Though it's probably very
messy in the kernel area for either. I have no clue as to how things
are set up in the 2.2.* kernel stream.
You might want to scan the old Linux-scsi or Linux-raid lists to see
if you can find the old patch (for an older 2.0.* series kernel if memory
serves)
Steve
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From: Luke Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 21:38
Subject: more then 15 partitions per SCSI device..
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>Does anyone know if there is a way to get more then 15 paritions per SCSI
>device? I have a 36 GB raid that looks like one drive /dev/sda. I have
>made more then 15 partitions /dev/sda1-/dev/sda21 and I have made the
>device files for the ones over 15, but I am not able to mount ones over
>15. I get the following message:
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>mount: /dev/sda16 already mounted or /u9 busy
>mount: /dev/sda17 already mounted or /ua busy
>etc...
>
>It there a hard limit of 15 partitions or is there some way around this?
>
>Thanks,
>Luke
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