in part it is due to the major/minor split which only gives 4 bits for the
partition number.

if you use devfs or LVM this limit is removed.

David Lang

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 ed@alcpress.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:10:41 -0800
> From: ed@alcpress.com
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: SCSI partitions
>
> Does anyone remember the reason why SCSI drives were limited to
> 15 partitions?
>
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