From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: ed@alcpress.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI partitions
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:33:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A64A214.17FFBBE7@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A642C31.25392.4BF2B9@localhost>
ed@alcpress.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember the reason why SCSI drives were limited to
> 15 partitions?
Because of the limitations of having 8-bit major/minor device numbers.
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Brian Gerst
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-16 19:10 SCSI partitions ed
2001-01-16 19:33 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2001-01-16 22:39 ` David Lang
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