From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:34:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:34:27 -0500 Received: from [64.64.109.142] ([64.64.109.142]:19210 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:34:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3A64A214.17FFBBE7@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:33:40 -0500 From: Brian Gerst X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ed@alcpress.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SCSI partitions In-Reply-To: <3A642C31.25392.4BF2B9@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/