[stgt] [PATCH 0/2] Fix Windows iscsi initiator's formatting failures

ronnie sahlberg ronniesahlberg at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 17:32:48 CEST 2013


I have verified with a W2K8 host that without Alexanders two patches
formatting with NTFS will fail with an error.
But after I apply Alexanders two patches I can successfully format a
LUN with NTFS.



On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Alexander Nezhinsky <nezhinsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:02 PM, FUJITA Tomonori
> <fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 May 2013 01:19:44 +0300
>> nezhinsky at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> From: Alexander Nezhinsky <nezhinsky at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Windows iscsi initiator failed to format devices because in read
>>> scsi commands, mainly READ(10), the last (but not the first) Data-IN
>>> pdu contained zero buffer offset.
>
>>> The fix was to handle data-in with status and scsi resp separately.
>>> In addition a rectification is made for the tx pdu generation.
>
>> You confirmed that Windows format works with this patch?
>
> I had tested it in my setup.
> But i would prefer to see it confirmed by Doug and Young-San
> in the original setups where it was first reported.
>
> Alexander
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