Diappearing partition in 2.0.103?

Howdy,

With all the discussion of booting tomsrtbt from DOS using 
a hard drive image, I couldn't resist trying it out on this old 
Libretto 50CT I have. All was going well until I noticed an 
anomaly in the partitions I could access.

Under 2.0.103, I get this:
/tmp# ls /dev/hda*
/dev/hda    /dev/hda2   /dev/hda4   /dev/hda6   /dev/hda8
/dev/hda1  /dev/hda3   /dev/hda5   /dev/hda7

Under 1.7.366 I get this:
/tmp# ls /dev/hda*
/dev/hda     /dev/hda11   /dev/hda3   /dev/hda6   /dev/hda9
/dev/hda1   /dev/hda12   /dev/hda4   /dev/hda7
/dev/hda10  /dev/hda2    /dev/hda5   /dev/hda8

Same machine, but apparently something about the new kernel 
limits the number of drive partitions!? I probably wouldn't have 
noticed it, but I happened to be trying to get at something on 
the H: drive and couldn't understand why it had disappeared 
with a version upgrade.

If you happen to handle machines with lots of partitions on a single 
drive, this might be worth remembering. Or if there's some simple 
explanation for pilot error, I stand ready for my flogging...

Of course, Tom added a driver update to the 2.0.x versions that 
fixed a problem I had connecting to the NICs in another machine, 
so I'll be keeping both versions around for a while. ;-)

Any thoughts or similar experiences from the group mind?

Tyler