Tres Melton wrote:
Hello,
One major number per controller, each controller
can have 16 devices, which leaves 16 numbers for partitions, of which
1
describes the entire disk (ie /dev/sda), leaving 15.
This has to do with the old ISA architecture. On 8 bit systems (XT) the
>Hello,
> One major number per controller, each controller
>can have 16 devices, which leaves 16 numbers for partitions, of which
1
>describes the entire disk (ie /dev/sda), leaving 15.
>
This has to do with the old ISA architecture. On 8 bit systems (XT) the
SCSI bus has 8 devices, one of
quoth the Bastian Balthazar Bux:
> Scsi device can have a maximum of 15 partitions ?
>
> brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda
> brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda1
>
> brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda14
> brw-rw 1 root dis
Scsi device can have a maximum of 15 partitions ?
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda1
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda14
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Jan 10 14:45 /dev/sda15
brw-rw 1
