* Per Jessen
[02-17-08 08:30]: Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, but the snag is that the number of partitions available in linux has been lowered to 15. If you do that and have more than one or two operating systems, you will hit the limit soon.
That's a SATA or PATA limit isn't it?
not really. It's a scsi limit. Seems the *ata interface ?translation? is being dropped in favor of scsi which has the 16 (15) device limitation. Rumor that work was in progress to change that limit, but have seen no recent mention :^(. -- Yeah, when they made the switch there were a bunch of us screaming about the
On Sunday 17 February 2008 08:35:57 am Patrick Shanahan wrote: partition limitation. We were told, "Don't Worry" that will be fixed. I've got half of a 250 GB disk that I wanted to install SUSE 11 on but only three partitions. That ain't gonna work! Has anybody heard anything?? Somebody really working on it? I'll bet not, and we will all be left stuck with this "improvement". Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org