what partitioning rule am I not aware of?

[jdow]

From: "Ian Chapman" <packages at amiga-hardware.com>
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
>> Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of
>> partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a
>> partition (can't be too big maybe)?
>> 
>> Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
>> bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
> 
> IIRC there is a partition limit of 15 for SCSI devices and something 
> like 63 for IDE devices. The SCSI limit probably also applies to 
> psuedo-scsi devices like SATA, USB drives etc. Exactly what's 
> responsible for the limit, I couldn't say whether it's the kernel, scsi 
> subsystem, partition layout limits etc. It may work in Windows but to be 
> honest almost all PC OSs handle partition layouts differently to some 
> degree or another.

Those are device limits not partition table limits. {^_-} I had both
SCSI and IDE drives at the same time when I had that silly setup with
30 or so partitions.
{^_-}