>>> Lee Duncan <leeman.dun...@gmail.com> schrieb am 14.12.2016 um 20:18 in
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> On Dec 12, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Dave partridge <minus273ch...@gmail.com>
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.

AFAIK, 60s is the SCSI _disk_ timeout; for tapes the timeout should be
significantly longer (depending on the technology).

> 
> 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).

15 minutes or so?

> 
> 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.

Regards,
Ulrich


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