From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emmanuel Florac Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:54:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20160104115414.782ff156@harpe.intellique.com> References: <20151218170644.24167419@harpe.intellique.com> <20151221134649.293a1a1e@harpe.intellique.com> <20151221185759.38dd21d6@harpe.intellique.com> <3F0204AE-89BD-45C7-883F-D6EC3A1D34E2@kolumbus.fi> <20151229175859.0c2c9b91@harpe.intellique.com> <8BB7A0F5-0F45-48C4-AB16-1EB7F23BD565@kolumbus.fi> <20151229191347.2e0e5f0e@harpe.intellique.com> <20151230193309.0df94c88@harpe.intellique.com> <20151230222418.03e40cf7@harpe.intellique.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail1.g1.pair.com ([66.39.3.162]:64603 "EHLO mail1.g1.pair.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbcADKyO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 05:54:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kai Makisara Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Le Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:22:34 +0200 (EET) Kai Makisara =C3=A9crivait: > >In the HP LTFS sources I found an interesting detail: the code does > >LOAD before unformatting. A comment says that it is in some cases > >better method to put the position to beginning of partition 0 than > >other methods. You could try =E2=80=98mt load=E2=80=99 before trying= to partition. > > =20 > Here is again a new version of the patch. This does load before=20 > partitioning. The code performing default partitioning (FDP=3D1) has > also been slightly modified (two more bits of the original mode page=20 > retained). OK, I'll test 'mt load' first, then the new patch. Stay tuned... --=20 -----------------------------------------------------------------------= - Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | | +33 1 78 94 84 02 -----------------------------------------------------------------------= - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html