* T mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20061204 23:15]:
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:31:15 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
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@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....
regards, -mika-