-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-08-24 at 15:04 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R.
[08-24-07 14:20]: Well, they can assign developers to scsi and develop patches that add support for more than 16 partitions to scsi modules. If technically possible, of course (I don't know what is the origin of that limit). Or invent something different than scsi for both scsi and ata.
iirc, original scsi design had 8 channels and a later extended version had 16, but you were only able to utilize 7/15 of those as the scsi system needed the 0 channel for itself.
But... aren't channels the devices connected to the same cable (bus)? Ugh, just looked it up in the wikipedia and there is no mention of what "channels" are. I can see a "reasonable reason" to limit devices to 8 or 16 (limit the number of cables), but not for the number of partitions inside a device. For small disks, maybe, but with the size of disks nowdays, 16 partitions is absurd.
BUT, I *am* approaching the age where facts may not necessarily be facts anymore :^)
Heh! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGzzPqtTMYHG2NR9URAmIYAKCYP7VUjfWvJAYyKcLcZdk18Dul3gCfYSL8 TNqs8emDuKTeLKLYHNRCkSY= =jxyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org