what partitioning rule am I not aware of?

[Mark Haney]

Robert Locke wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 09:00 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
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> I believe that IDE disks will be managed by the SCSI driver also in the
> future so the 15 limit will rear up on those folks soon and may be why
> fdisk shipped with that limit in anticipation of the "change".....
>
>   
You are correct (at least as far as IDE disks being managed like SCSI 
devices.  I don't know if that means the SCSI driver will manage them, 
but, at some point in the near future all hard drives would be 
identified by /dev/sd*. 
>> I think that's it. Any details wrong here? (Thanks to all the folks who
>> replied and helped make this summary possible).
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