Le Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:53:46 +0200 (EET) Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > The patch uses the scsi level of the device to separate processing. > The FORMAT MEDIUM command is defined in SCSI-3 and I suppose that no > current drive is still SCSI-2. In addition to the "sane" changes > using the method to specify partitions, the patch implements the > following: if the size is 1, the driver tells the drive to use > default partitioning for two partitions. For the HP Ultrium this > should result in partition 0 of 1425 GB and 1 of 37.5 GB. I don't > know if this is a useful addition. Still testing, with another, LTO-5 tape: ~# mt -f /dev/nst0 mkpartition 0 /dev/nst0: Invalid argument Dec 29 17:57:38 shakuhachi kernel: st 7:0:0:0: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. Dec 29 17:57:38 shakuhachi kernel: st 7:0:0:0: st0: Mode sense. Length 11, medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 Dec 29 17:57:38 shakuhachi kernel: st 7:0:0:0: st0: Density 58, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 Dec 29 17:57:38 shakuhachi kernel: st 7:0:0:0: st0: Block size: 0, buffer size: 4096 (1 blocks). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html