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Newsgroups: gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user Date: 2006-12-04
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/844/focus=847
> > > My HD used to have 15 partitions, now I created another one, the 16th, but > > > it is not recognized by udev [...]
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> > Such a limit does not exist for udev: > > root <at> grml ~ # ls -la /dev/hda*
> Thanks for the respond mika. glad to know that. The difference is mine is > sda and yours is hda.
> I think the answer I get from gmane.linux.debian.user by Greg Folkert is > right, my SATA is recognized as SCSI device, which limits to 15 partitions > by SCSI Standard.
Ah right.
> However, both responds from gmane.linux.debian.user implied that the sda16 > should be recognized as sdb (under both linux & windows). any idea?
It's a limit of the kernel.
A possible solution might be the patch from:
http://lwn.net/Articles/110426/
But we have to review and test that one. It's on the todolist: http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue42 - but it's definitely queued for post 0.9, we had the full freeze for grml 0.9 and grml-small 0.3 right in those minutes. And 2.6.19 will have some further changes due to Libata PATA merge as well….