Hi Laurence, > -----Original Message----- > From: Laurence Oberman [mailto:lober...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 10:25 AM > To: Seymour, Shane M > Cc: Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus); Emmanuel Florac; Laurence Oberman; linux- > s...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: What partition should the MTMKPART argument specify? Was: > Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > Meant to mention, still waiting for my new LTO5, also this is the first time I > am testing the DAT72. > > Shane, have you had the DAT working before this last patch, if so which patch
The latest test was the first chance that I've had to test the changes. I didn't test the previous patches because I didn't have a partitionable LTO drive but I wanted to test the changes to set an explicit size for partition 0 and 1 (since it's the only partitionable drive I have) and found it didn't work with the DAT72. With a fedora user space (an old FC20 install) and a modified mt-st (to remove the negative test) compiled up I tested 4.4.0-next-20160113 (that also has some PCI patches in it for testing) with Kai's patch and it failed and I had an older kernel around (4.4.0-rc5-next-20151215) that I tested after seeing the failure and that works. Thanks Shane > > Laurence Oberman > Principal Software Maintenance Engineer > Red Hat Global Support Services > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurence Oberman" <lober...@redhat.com> > To: "Shane M Seymour" <shane.seym...@hpe.com> > Cc: "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi>, "Emmanuel > Florac" <eflo...@intellique.com>, "Laurence Oberman" > <oberma...@gmail.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:23:13 PM > Subject: Re: What partition should the MTMKPART argument specify? Was: > Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > On My DAT tape with the latest patch > > > [root@srp-server ~]# cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/st0/device/scsi_level > 4 > > [root@srp-server ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoption can-partitions > > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 > bytes. > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, > medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] > Density 47, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: > st > 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block size: 0, buffer size: 4096 (1 blocks). > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Mode 0 options: buffer > writes: 1, async writes: 1, read ahead: 1 > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] can bsr: 1, two FMs: > 0, fast > mteom: 0, auto lock: 0, > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] defs for wr: 0, no > block > limits: 0, partitions: 1, s2 log: 0 > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] sysv: 0 nowait: 0 > sili: 0 > nowait_filemark: 0 > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] debugging: 1 > Jan 28 18:17:49 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Rewinding tape. > > [root@srp-server ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 mkpartition 1000 > > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 > bytes. > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, > medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] > Density 47, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: > st > 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block size: 0, buffer size: 4096 (1 blocks). > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Loading tape. > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Error: 8000002, cmd: 0 0 > 0 0 0 > 0 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Sense Key : Unit > Attention > [current] Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Add. Sense: Not > ready to ready change, medium may have changed Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server > kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, > medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] > Density 47, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: > st > 6:0:1:0: [st0] Block size: 0, buffer size: 4096 (1 blocks). > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Partition page length is > 10 > bytes. > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] PP: max 1, add 0, xdp 0, > psum 02, pofmetc 0, rec 03, units 00, sizes: 0 65535 Jan 28 18:18:01 > srp-server > kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] MP: 11 08 01 00 10 03 00 00 00 00 ff ff Jan 28 > 18:18:01 > srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] psd_cnt 2, max.parts 1, nbr_parts 0 Jan > 28 > 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Formatting tape with two > partitions (1 = 1000 MB). > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Sent partition page > length is > 12 bytes. needs_format: 0 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] > PP: max 1, add 1, xdp 1, psum 02, pofmetc 0, rec 03, units 00, sizes: 65535 > 1000 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] MP: 11 0a 01 01 30 > 03 > 00 00 ff ff 03 e8 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Error: > 8000002, cmd: 15 10 0 0 18 0 Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: > [st0] > Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st > 6:0:1:0: [st0] Add. Sense: Invalid field in parameter list Jan 28 18:18:01 > srp- > server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Partitioning of tape failed. > Jan 28 18:18:01 srp-server kernel: st 6:0:1:0: [st0] Rewinding tape. > > > > Laurence Oberman > Principal Software Maintenance Engineer > Red Hat Global Support Services > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shane M Seymour" <shane.seym...@hpe.com> > To: "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi> > Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <lober...@redhat.com>, "Emmanuel Florac" > <eflo...@intellique.com>, "Laurence Oberman" <oberma...@gmail.com>, > linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:12:41 PM > Subject: RE: What partition should the MTMKPART argument specify? Was: > Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > Hi Kai, > > $ pwd > /sys/class/scsi_tape/st1/device > $ cat scsi_level > 4 > > Thanks > Shane > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" [mailto:kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi] > > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 4:04 AM > > To: Seymour, Shane M > > Cc: Laurence Oberman; Emmanuel Florac; Laurence Oberman; linux- > > s...@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: What partition should the MTMKPART argument specify? Was: > > Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning > > > > > > > On 28.1.2016, at 9.36, Seymour, Shane M <shane.seym...@hpe.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Kai, > > > > > > With the changes the I get a failure partitioning a HP DAT72 drive > > > (DDS-5): > > > > > > # ./mt -f /dev/st1 stsetoption debug # ./mt -f /dev/st1 stsetoption > > > can-partitions # ./mt -f /dev/st1 mkpartition 1000 > > > /dev/st1: Input/output error > > > > > ... > > > [ 3976.389605] st 6:0:3:0: [st1] Partition page length is 10 bytes. > > > [ 3976.389610] st 6:0:3:0: [st1] PP: max 1, add 0, xdp 0, psum 02, > > > pofmetc 0, rec 03, units 00, sizes: 0 65535 [ 3976.389614] st 6:0:3:0: > > > [st1] MP: 11 08 01 00 10 03 00 00 00 00 ff ff [ 3976.389618] st > > > 6:0:3:0: [st1] psd_cnt 2, max.parts 1, nbr_parts 0 > > ^^^^^^^^^ The > > problem is here > > > > ... > > > Using a slightly older kernel to partition the DAT72 drive works > > > (same 3 > > commands as above): > > ... > > > [ 351.584906] st 6:0:3:0: [st1] Partition page length is 10 bytes. > > > [ 351.584908] st 6:0:3:0: [st1] psd_cnt 1, max.parts 1, nbr_parts 0 > > > > The old driver computes the psd_cnt from the returned page length. The > > same applies to the patched driver if the SCSI level of the device < SCSI_3. > > This works correctly with my drive that reports SCSI_2. So, the question is: > > what SCSI level does your device report? > > > > Kai
