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Subject: Partitions
From: "Thomas E. Ruth" <truth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:35:01 -0600
Organization: Islands of Chaos
Sender: owner-devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I was informed by someone that devfs might help me get linux to see more
than 16 partitions on my scsi drives. I have installed the patch,
recompiled, etc. from information in the FAQ and my system didn't want
to boot at all after that. The system is a RedHat6.1 (which I have
upgraded glibc to 2.1.3 per FAQ). The problem was with the /dev/md??
device drivers. I have 9 mirrors, and for each and every one of them,
the raidstart command said "illegal argument". Is there an easy way to
fix this problem so I can boot up and give things a shot?

I also noticed that in my /dev/scsi/....../part?? there were only 16 of
them. Is devfs still limited to the number of partitions I can have on
my drive?

Thanks for the help,

Tom

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