Re: Over 15 partitions on SCSI?

From: Goswin Brederlow (goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 13:05:48 EST


>>>>> " " == B Galliart <bgallia@orion.it.luc.edu> writes:

> Is there any simple patch to get the kernel to report the full
> partition table when using SCSI as it does with the IDE driver?
> I do not need any additional device file support since using
> rawfs I am mounting the entire drive (/dev/sdb), I just need
> the kernel recognize the existence of additional partitions
> beyond those addressable via device files.

Try to use a kernel with devfs compiled in. I'm not sure whether that
actually changes the major/minor splitting of scsi, but with that its
easy to do it right, without messing around with the major/minors of
the scsi subsystem (which could break other software).

MfG
        Goswin

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