"Carlos E. R."
The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 22:34 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
It is a feature. hda is ... mostly history.
We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.
Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the future?
No - but we added a workaround for this. If you have more than 16 partitions, just give it a try!
Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?
I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.
I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more than 16 partitions.
So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126