Hello. I am wondering if the following is a kernel bug. I am using v
2.6.17 -- 11th debian patch. I am unable to stat more than 16 partitions
on a SATA hard disk, though parted allows me to create more than that.
Please see the following:
$ sudo parted
GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Disk /dev/sda: 9729,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 9729,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Type File system Flags
1 0,1,0 130,254,62 primary linux-swap
2 131,0,0 6204,254,62 primary ext3
3 6205,0,0 7509,254,62 primary ext3
4 7510,0,0 9728,254,62 extended
5 7510,1,0 7609,254,62 logical ext3
6 7610,1,0 7709,254,62 logical
7 7710,1,0 7809,254,62 logical
8 7810,1,0 7909,254,62 logical
9 7910,1,0 8009,254,62 logical
10 8010,1,0 8109,254,62 logical
11 8110,1,0 8209,254,62 logical
12 8210,1,0 8309,254,62 logical
13 8310,1,0 8409,254,62 logical
14 8410,1,0 8509,254,62 logical
15 8510,1,0 8609,254,62 logical
16 8610,1,0 8709,254,62 logical
17 8710,1,0 8809,254,62 logical
18 8810,1,0 8909,254,62 logical
(parted) quit
$ ls /dev/sda*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda10 /dev/sda11 /dev/sda12 /dev/sda13
/dev/sda14 /dev/sda15 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6
/dev/sda7 /dev/sda8 /dev/sda9
OTOH I have no problems creating the same number of partitions on an IDE
hard disk. man:hd(4) says I can have upto 63 partitions on an IDE disk.
man:sd(4) speaks about only sd[0..8] and though this is outdated --
sdx15 is max, I still don't see why I should not be allowed to use more
than 16 partitions on a SATA hard disk. If this is really a kernel bug
please tell me where I can report it, and if it is not a bug, then what
is it and how can I fix it?
Thank you.
Shriramana Sharma.
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