It's not really a libata limitation -- it's the scsi layer. And we
should probably handle the limitations which are present for other disk
types too (partedUtils.py had a list of most of them)
... that said
On Tuesday, April 14 2009, David Lehman said:
> diff --git a/storage/devices.py b/storage/devices.py
> index 080cd7f..d01fcc7 100644
> --- a/storage/devices.py
> +++ b/storage/devices.py
> @@ -798,6 +798,10 @@ class DiskDevice(StorageDevice):
> if not self.mediaPresent:
> raise DeviceError("cannot commit to disk %s which has no media" % self.name)
>
> + if self.name.startswith("sd") and \
> + self.partedDisk.lastPartitionNumber > 15:
> + raise DeviceError("disk %s has too many partitions" % self.name)
> +
Traceback'ing here is probably not ideal. People certainly have setups
with more partitions than we support. We just have to ignore the later
ones
Jeremy
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