Unfortunately I'm unable to lay my hands on an LTO 5 tape drive so I'm not able to test that it works either. If it helps at all I can test in the negative and make sure that for an LTO 3 drive it fails gracefully but that's about it at the moment. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-scsi- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laurence Oberman > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 7:13 AM > To: Emmanuel Florac > Cc: Laurence Oberman; Kai Makisara; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > All attempts to get my drive and changer firmware updated have failed. > So I wont be able to add another "tested by" to this thread unless I can find > another drive. > > Even using Doug's method fails to actually update. Seems to suck up the > image and then do nothing. > Lands up in getting hung and needs a full power reset. > > The image I have is the correct image. > > I dont want to try to many convoluted methods because I dont want to brick > the changer. > > Its the only one I have for doing all the st driver testing here at Red Hat in the > GSS team. > > Thanks > > Laurence Oberman > Principal Software Maintenance Engineer > Red Hat Global Support Services > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Emmanuel Florac" <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Laurence Oberman" <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <oberman.l@xxxxxxxxx>, "Kai Makisara" > <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 11:07:20 AM > Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > Le Wed, 6 Jan 2016 10:23:34 -0500 (EST) > Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > > > MaxPartitions: 0 > > > > Drive is working fine, > > > > # mt -f /dev/st0 status > > SCSI 2 tape drive: > > File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. > > Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x58 (no translation). > > Soft error count since last status=0 > > General status bits on (41010000): > > BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN > > > > This is what I get when I try and partition and I believe this may be > > a firmware issue for me. > > Yes probably, it reports "MaxPartitions 0", should be 1 for an LTO-5 drive. > Weird. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{������ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
