Brad Boyer wrote:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote:can't mount a partition: LinuxPPC:~# mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda18 /sda18 mount: special device /dev/sda18 does not existUnless something has changed recently, Linux doesn't support having that many partitions on a single scsi target. It looks like the largest supported would be sda15 for your first disk. Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com
Unfortunatly the problem persist with a disk with "only" 14 partitions. swe@LinuxPPC:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda /dev/sda Command (? for help): p /dev/sda# type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/sda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/sda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/sda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/sda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/sda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/sda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/sda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/sda9 Apple_Free 262144 @ 1824 (128.0M) Free space /dev/sda10 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_5 30733472 @ 263968 ( 14.7G) HFS /dev/sda11 Apple_Free 262144 @ 30997440 (128.0M) Free space /dev/sda12 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_6 50624768 @ 31259584 ( 24.1G) HFS /dev/sda13 Apple_Free 262144 @ 81884352 (128.0M) Free space /dev/sda14 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_7 308575456 @ 82146496 (147.1G) HFS /dev/sda15 Apple_Free 16 @ 390721952 ( 8.0k) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=390721968 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Command (? for help): q swe@LinuxPPC:~$ sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda14 /sda14 mount: special device /dev/sda14 does not exist swe@LinuxPPC:~$ Fritz Wettstein