SAP (sybase) ASE - The maximum number of configured devices has been reached

The case:

Creation of a new device.

Error message:

The maximum number <X> of configured devices has already been reached. Please reconfigure 'number of devices' to a larger value and retry disk initialization.

1> disk init name="DdeviceNameLog", physname="/sybvol01/sap16/data/DdeviceNameLog1.dat", size="100M"

2> go

Msg 5162, Level 16, State 1:

Server 'SRSSERVER', Line 1:

The maximum number 20 of configured devices has already been reached. Please reconfigure 'number of devices' to a larger value and retry disk initialization.

Solution:

sp_configure 'number of devices', 30

go