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libata limits

Posted Nov 13, 2004 13:22 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: libata limits by pflugstad
Parent article: Partitioned loopback devices

There are two SATA implementations in the kernel. The older one is under
IDE, and has the 64-partition IDE limit. The newer one (that uses libata)
is part of the SCSI subsystem, yes, so is limited to the SCSI 16
partitions.

Duncan

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