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I think you are getting the hard drives and partitions mixed up. 63 ide hard drives(that is a lot of controllers) and 15 scsi. I believe you can chain 127 usb devices together, making them all hard drives.
I personally have 10 partitions on my120 GB hard drive.
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Do not take this as Windows bashing, but Windows can only make 26 partitions normally (letters of the alphabet). That would imply not using any floppy, cd-rom or other device.
Actually Windows can only make 23 partitions. One primary and one extended that can have 22 logical
C: is primary
A: is dedicated to floppy
B: is dedicated to floppy(how stupid is that)
D: would be the extended that holds all the logical
B: comes from the time you booted your OS from the floppy, that's why there were several floppy drives...
As mentioned before - an extended partition still goes as a primary one . If you don't have a floppy, is the drive letter still assigned to it? AFAIK, the primary partition that is extended, is not using any drive letter whatsoever. In PartitionMagic 8, it was always marked with * instead of D:\...
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So, it would be 63 partitions per drive.
I used cfdisk to create as many partitions as I could on a spare hard drive. this is the output of fdisk -l after doing that.
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gentoo wizard7 # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1761 14145201 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 3650 14593 87907680 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 1762 1891 1044225 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 1892 3649 14121135 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 3650 5561 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 5562 7473 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 7474 9385 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 * 9386 11042 13309821 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 11043 12700 13309852 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 12701 14593 15205491 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Warning: omitting partitions after #60.
They will be deleted if you save this partition table.
Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 581 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 582 1162 292824 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 1163 35637 17375400 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 1163 1743 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 1744 2324 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 2325 2905 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb8 2906 3486 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb9 3487 4067 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb10 4068 4648 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb11 4649 5229 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb12 5230 5810 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb13 5811 6391 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb14 6392 6972 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb15 6973 7553 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb16 7554 8134 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb17 8135 8715 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb18 8716 9296 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb19 9297 9877 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb20 9878 10458 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb21 10459 11039 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb22 11040 11620 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb23 11621 12201 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb24 12202 12782 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb25 12783 13363 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb26 13364 13944 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb27 13945 14525 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb28 14526 15106 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb29 15107 15687 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb30 15688 16268 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb31 16269 16849 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb32 16850 17430 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb33 17431 18011 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb34 18012 18592 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb35 18593 19173 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb36 19174 19754 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb37 19755 20335 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb38 20336 20916 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb39 20917 21497 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb40 21498 22078 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb41 22079 22659 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb42 22660 23240 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb43 23241 23821 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb44 23822 24402 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb45 24403 24983 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb46 24984 25564 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb47 25565 26145 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb48 26146 26726 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb49 26727 27307 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb50 27308 27888 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb51 27889 28469 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb52 28470 29050 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb53 29051 29631 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb54 29632 30212 292792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb55 30213 30987 390568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb56 30988 31762 390568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb57 31763 32537 390568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb58 32538 33312 390568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb59 33313 34087 390568+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb60 34088 34862 390568+ 83 Linux
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