Firmware update fails as follows: Still researching. This is the only LTO5 I have access to so unless Shane has one I may not be able to make progress. (Its way long out of warranty and support)
We mostly use this for generic st driver and changer testing for RHEL and it has not been updated for at least two years. Performing FUP operation... Checking image file (/root/V3210A011-E00.IMG) Checking device readiness Sending image file to the device Redetecting device Fup drive command failed: Unknown error! (status = -100) Host adapter status = 0x00 Driver status = 0x08 Error buffer = 'MSG: FupDrive() - Error committing image file to drive (/root/V3210A011-E00.IMG) 1584236 of 1584236 bytes written. SCSI: WriteBuffer()::DevIo() - ErrorCode (0x70h) ,Sense Key (0x05h) ILLEGAL REQUEST, INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER LIST. ASC(0x26h), ASCQ(0x00h) - ) ' Unable to perform FUP operation. Laurence Oberman Principal Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Oberman" <lober...@redhat.com> To: "Emmanuel Florac" <eflo...@intellique.com> Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <oberma...@gmail.com>, "Kai Makisara" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:25:37 AM Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning I left the log of the failure to partition out Here it is # mt -f /dev/nst0 mkpartition 1 /dev/nst0: Input/output error [ 5499.341648] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. [ 5499.342903] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 [ 5499.343523] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Density 58, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 [ 5499.344114] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block size: 512, buffer size: 4096 (8 blocks). [ 5499.344702] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Loading tape. [ 5499.359733] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. [ 5499.360970] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 [ 5499.361584] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Density 58, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 [ 5499.362165] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block size: 512, buffer size: 4096 (8 blocks). [ 5499.363851] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Partition page length is 10 bytes. [ 5499.364468] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] PP: max 0, add 0, xdp 0, psum 03, pofmetc 0,rec 03, units 09, sizes: 1541 65535 [ 5499.365074] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] MP: 11 08 00 00 18 03 09 00 06 05 ff ff [ 5499.365658] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] psd_cnt 2, max.parts 0, nbr_parts 0 [ 5499.366246] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Formatting tape with two partitions (FDP). [ 5499.366826] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Sent partition page length is 12 bytes. needs_format: 0 [ 5499.367424] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] PP: max 0, add 1, xdp 4, psum 03, pofmetc 0 rec 03, units 00, sizes: 65535 65535 [ 5499.368024] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] MP: 11 0a 00 01 98 03 00 00 ff ff ff ff [ 5499.369842] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Error: 8000002, cmd: 15 10 0 0 18 0 [ 5499.370495] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 5499.371109] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Add. Sense: Invalid field in parameter list [ 5499.371714] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Partitioning of tape failed. Laurence Oberman Principal Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Oberman" <lober...@redhat.com> To: "Emmanuel Florac" <eflo...@intellique.com> Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <oberma...@gmail.com>, "Kai Makisara" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:23:34 AM Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning Hello Emanuel I am using this device, its an Ultrium 5 (LTO5) Its an older changer and I am unable to update the firmware, still working on that. What version of mt are you using, as I am testing using a RHEL7.2 base and the upstream patched kernel. Linux example.redhat.com 4.3.3 #1 SMP Tue Jan 5 15:58:47 EST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # tapeinfo -f /dev/st0 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'QUANTUM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM 5 ' Revision: '3060' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: 'HU1023AKHE' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 16777215 SCSI ID: 0 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: Not Loaded Density Code: 0x58 BlockSize: 512 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0x1 DeCompType: 0x1 BOP: yes Block Position: 0 Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 1541692 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 1541692 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 0 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. mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoption can-partitions [ 5343.620005] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. [ 5343.621424] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Mode sense. Length 11, medium 0, WBS 10, BLL 8 [ 5343.622005] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Density 58, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1 [ 5343.622606] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Block size: 512, buffer size: 4096 (8 blocks). [ 5343.623208] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1, async writes: 1, read ahead: 1 [ 5343.623810] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] can bsr: 1, two FMs: 0, fast mteom: 0, auto lock: 0, [ 5343.624413] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] defs for wr: 0, no block limits: 0, partitions: 1, s2 log: 0 [ 5343.625011] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] sysv: 0 nowait: 0 sili: 0 nowait_filemark: 0 [ 5343.625623] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] debugging: 1 [ 5343.626222] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Rewinding tape. # mt -f /dev/nst0 mkpartition 1 /dev/nst0: Input/output error Laurence Oberman Principal Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Florac" <eflo...@intellique.com> To: "Laurence Oberman" <lober...@redhat.com> Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <oberma...@gmail.com>, "Kai Makisara" <kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:10:49 AM Subject: Re: st driver doesn't seem to grok LTO partitioning Le Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:55:04 -0500 (EST) Laurence Oberman <lober...@redhat.com> écrivait: > mt -f /dev/nst0 mkpartition 1 > What is the type of drive exactly? I still couldn't test with the LTO-5 drive as the machine it's connected to is being reinstalled. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflo...@intellique.com> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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