Le Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:53:46 +0200 (EET)
Kai Makisara <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi> 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).


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