Carlos E. R. wrote:
Of course, what I would prefer would be a direct interface, instead of /dev/sda being called "/dev/dska", for instance, with no limitations, and valid for scsi, usb, ata, sata, pata, firewire, etc. Or a move to use words instead of bytes for the major,minor scheme. In that, I can only hope, I can't do anything myself, of course.
Here's my take on this situation (keep in mind that I don't use >15 partitions myself) - afaict, kpartx does a pretty good job of mapping partitions from <device> to /dev/mapper/NNNNNN. I certainly haven't thoroughly tested it though. If your SCSI/usb/firewire/etc. device can be read and understood by kpartx, it'll probably work. In 10.3 YaST has a problem with these device-mapper drives, as well as the many partitions (the warning pop-up). If openSUSE is not to keen on providing this more-than-15-partitions support in general, a compromise might be an option for "experts" to enable kpartx at the time of the pop-up window. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org