From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) Description of problem: Need to increase the device limit beyonf 16 (have /dev/sda1-15) so I can make the devices and format the remaining 32 filesystems How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Need a Compaq HBA and StorageWorks 2. 3. Actual Results: No effect Expected Results: This is a hard limit Additional info: email me at rmistretta
The kernel imposes a limit of being able to access 15 partitions per SCSI drive; there are no device nodes which can be created for partitions 16 and higher.