Re: SCSI partitions

2001-01-16 Thread David Lang
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Re: SCSI partitions

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

SCSI partitions

2001-01-16 Thread ed
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PROBLEM: Endless list of SCSI-Partitions

2000-09-17 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, I'm not a kernel hacker - sorry if I overlooked something obvious :) [1.] One line summary of the problem: Endless list of SCSI-Partitions [2.] Full description of the problem/report: If I boot 2.4.0-test8 or above (I just checked test9-pre2), the aic7xxx-driver shows me an en