Am 27.01.25 um 15:26 schrieb Philip Pemberton via Bacula-users:
Hi all,This isn't specifically a Bacula question but I know a bunch of you are running LTO drives and I hope you'll grant me the wisdom of your experience! I'm seeing an unusual (to me) issue with a new-old-stock IBM drive and tapes. They came as a package deal. The drive has about 600 power-on hours and about 40 media-movement hours. What I'm seeing is that tapes don't write at full speed on their first pass through the drive. I can hear the drive stopping and starting as it writes to the tape. Sometimes the drive partially ejects the tape and reloads it. The data flow is: * NVME disk (hdparm -tT speed = 2254MB/s buffered, cached ~10x faster) * zstd -T0 --fast * mbuffer -t -M 2G -L -s 262144 -P 80 -f -o /dev/nst0 When the drive stalls, Mbuffer reports that the buffer is full to capacity and a zero write rate to the drive -- it seems like the drive's buffer is full and it isn't actively writing. If I pull the error correction logs with smartctl on the sg device, I see 25 write errors corrected in about 35GB of data. I figured I had some bad tapes, but here's where it gets weird. If I write to the same area I just wrote, the tape writes at about 85MBytes/sec. Not the 150-160MByte/sec the drive should be giving, but still better than the 35MB/s average from the first pass. I've tried a cleaning tape, this made no difference. The drive isn't requesting cleaning either. The tapes are Quantum branded Barium Ferrite tapes, which I gather are the same as the IBM branded BaFe tapes I'm using in another drive. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here, and is it expected behaviour for the first write pass on a new-old-stock tape? Is the time these tapes -- or the drive -- spent on the shelf likely to be relevant? That is to say, if I bought a box of brand new tapes from a channel distributor, are they likely to behave any better? I should note that the tapes I've written read back fine, the drive doesn't report any read errors that I've noticed. Thanks.
Please try https://www.ibm.com/search?lang=en&cc=us&facetTabs=fixes&origin=fc&q=ITDT&tabType[0]=support Regards Udo
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