Re: /dev/sda16 isn't being initialized

Here in comp.os.linux.misc,
"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
spake unto us, saying:

In <VX2BFpHpve4T092yn@xxxxxxxx>, on 09/12/2006
at 09:58 PM, rsteiner@xxxxxxxx (Richard Steiner) said:

For each physical SCSI device, there can be no more than 15
partitions defined under Linux.

Water is wet. What does that have to do with the statement "Nothing,
because only 15 subdevices are supported."? A SCSI subdevice *is* a
physical SCSI device.

Sorry, but using the old Linux /dev/sdaX notation, the subdevice number
X is used to reference DISK PARTITIONS (you know, those things which come
in "primary" and "extended" flavors) on the single SCSI hard drive which
happens to be known to the kernel as /dev/sda.

That has **always** been true, as far as I know. Certainly since 1994,
which I first used a SCSI device with Linux.

What's your point? I never used the word "subdevices", and the thread
in question is about an inability to address /dev/sda16 on a SCSI drive
due to the partition addressing limitation being talked about.

Are you getting behind on *** points or something? :-)

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