Re: DAC960 and XFS blocksize error

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

"Martin K. Petersen" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Rossman <pdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Paul> [root@x /]# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/rd/c0d0p1 mkfs.xfs: warning -
> Paul> cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/rd/c0d0p1
> 
> This has been fixed in the current CVS tree.
> 
> Eric Sandeen has an updated driver disk containing a workaround for
> the 1.0 release.

Hi Paul -

Looks like you're already up and running, so not sure if the driver disk
will do you much good...  If you don't mind recompiling, the patch you
need is this:


--- linux-2.4-xfs/linux/drivers/block/DAC960.c  2001/02/22 21:09:04    
1.24
+++ linux-2.4-xfs/linux/drivers/block/DAC960.c  2001/05/03 01:10:53    
1.25
@@ -5104,6 +5104,9 @@ static int DAC960_IOCTL(Inode_T *Inode, 
       return
put_user(Controller->GenericDiskInfo.part[MINOR(Inode->i_rdev)]
                                                 .nr_sects,
                      (long *) Argument);
+    case BLKBSZSET:
+      /* Set block size. */
+      return blk_ioctl (Inode->i_rdev, Request, Argument);
     case BLKRAGET:
       /* Get Read-Ahead. */
       if ((long *) Argument == NULL) return -EINVAL;


HTH,

-Eric

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