On Dec 12, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Dave partridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I just ran a Wireshark capture on the target system of the iSCSI session for 
> a Windows initiator connecting the tape and then issuing an FSF.  I then did 
> the same for the Ubuntu open-iscsi initiator.
> 
> The capture for the WIndows initiator looks pretty much as I would expect 
> (given my limited knowledge of the iSCSI protocols).
> 
> The Ubuntu/open-iscsi capture has all sorts of odd stuff like logins being 
> sent to the target every 15 seconds whle the FSF is being processed.  
> Definitely borked I think.
> 
> Do any of the open-iscsi folk watch this forum or am I talking to myself?
> 
> Dave

Hi Dave:

I think you are right — the problem is the timeout.

The default timeout on many systems (like SUSE that I work on) is set to 60 
seconds for a SCSI command. And it looks like the tape drive took about 82 
seconds to skip forward a file on your Windows trace.

Try setting the timeout to 90 seconds? The open-iscsi README talks about how to 
manually set the system SCSI timeout to longer (since this isn’t an iSCSI 
thing).

Also, you may want to disable the Ping/NOOPs that open-iscsi is setting. This 
is also discussed in the README file. I’d try setting them both to 0 to get 
them out of the way. It looks like the tape drive does not respond to the NOOP 
ping when it is busy for 80+ seconds skipping forward one file.

— 
Lee Duncan

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