> On 30.12.2015, at 23.24, Emmanuel Florac <eflo...@intellique.com> wrote: > > Le Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:21:47 +0200 > "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi> écrivait: > >> This happens if the position is not at the beginning of partition 0. >> Could you try to switch to partition 0: >> mt -f /dev/nst0 setpartition 0 >> mt -f /dev/nst0 status >> >> and the retry partitioning. > > Alas, no dice: > OK.
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 ‘mt load’ before trying to partition. Kai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html