In article <Pine.WNT.4.30.0012281341490.-4291-100000@toddvier>,
	Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> There comes a point where supposition leads into ludicrous situations, and
> this is one of them.  If the extra partition bits are placed sufficiently
> high in the minor number to provide a reasonably large number of units (say,
> 16384 drives?), 

After my patches you still can have 2^16 = 65536 drives on the i386 port.
And that's exactly the same number you have on all the ports with a
maximum of 16 partitions right now.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                         http://core.de/~tron/