On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> Thinking of buying a big SATA drive. Are they treated exactly like a
> SCSI? In other words are they limited to 15 partitions (unlike IDE) for any
> OS that gets installed on them?
I think 15 is an old limit, probably more like 64. No difference in the media.
That would be controlled by the file system.
The SATA driver is tied in with SCSI and will show up as /dev/sda etc.
--Steve Szmidt
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