Re: more then 15 partitions per SCSI device..

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:10:35 +0300 (MSK)


In <199902021351.FAA12800@peak.org> Luke Miller (millerlu@peak.org) wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a way to get more then 15 paritions per SCSI
> device? I have a 36 GB raid that looks like one drive /dev/sda. I have
> made more then 15 partitions /dev/sda1-/dev/sda21 and I have made the
> device files for the ones over 15, but I am not able to mount ones over
> 15. I get the following message:

> mount: /dev/sda16 already mounted or /u9 busy
> mount: /dev/sda17 already mounted or /ua busy
> etc...

> It there a hard limit of 15 partitions or is there some way around this?

Yes, there is hard limit of 15 partitions per drive :-(( Somewhere at vger
was patch for this...

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