Cant see disk partitions

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#1

Hello.
My hard disk have 15 partition.
Suse and other Linux distribution cant see and mount 3 last partitions.
Is that mean the Linux cant use beyond sda15 partition?
How can I see the last 3 partitions?
Thank you.

#2

Use YaST -> System -> Partitioner to enable mounting of extra partitions and user access if required. It will create the necessary fstab entries for you.

#3

I appreciate your answer.
But I could not found the “enable mounting of extra partitions”.

Please see this :


Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         132     1060258+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2             133       38913   311508382+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5             133        3267    25181856    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            3268        6533    26234113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7            6534        8166    13117041    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8            8167        9799    13117041    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9            9800       10321     4192933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10          10322       11758    11542671   83  Linux
/dev/sda11          11759       13065    10498446    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda12          13066       16331    26234113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda13          16332       19597    26234113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda14          19598       22863    26234113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda15          22864       26129    26234113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda16          26130       29395    26234113+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda17          29396       32661    26234113+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda18          32662       35927    26234113+   b  W95 FAT32

These are my hard disk partitions.
My question is ,I can’t mount partitions sda16, sda17, sda18?
My hard disk interface is sata. Why suse detect that as SCSI?
It seems that suse cant map SCSI partitions above sda15.

#4

My hard disk interface is sata. Why suse detect that as SCSI?
It seems that suse cant map SCSI partitions above sda15.

That is correct. SATA disks are treated as SCSI disks under linux via libata driver, as a result it inherits the same partition numbering and limit of 15 partitions per disk.

Similar thread here.

#5

deano ferrari wrote:
> That is correct. SATA disks are treated as SCSI disks under linux via
> libata driver, as a result it inherits the same partition numbering and
> limit of 15 partitions per disk.
>
> Similar thread ‘here’ (http://tinyurl.com/8jwn8e).

Under libata, even PATA disks get the name /dev/sdX not /dev/hdX. On
my server, which is a Sony laptop that was built in 1997 or 1998, the
on-board PATA disk is /dev/sda and one the is plugged through a PCMCIA
cs card is /dev/hda. When I first installed SuSE on it (9.3??), they
were /dev/hda and /dev/hde.

Larry