Re: SCSI partitions

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 14:33:40 EST

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ed@alcpress.com wrote:
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> 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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