[stgt] Using tgtd to pass through a SCSI tape drive

[Mark Harvey]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com> wrote:
> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:55:51 +1000
>> Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So far, with this patch in place, it has passed all the current
>>> NetBackup 'Drive Qualification tests'.
>>> I'm just waiting on the last one to complete which writes random data
>>> to complete tape to test EOT behaviour.
>>>
>>> As I've only got one spare tape in this library, I'm not sure if this
>>> test will succeed as it is suppose to load a 2nd blank tape.. Oh well.
>>> I'll check back in on progress once I'm at home to see if it
>>> completed, otherwise it will be tomorrow.
>>>
>>> However, all tests so far have passed.
>>>  - basic opening, closing & writing to tape
>>>  - fast block locate tests
>>>  - Force errors and check correct response
>>>  - various reads/writes & positioning to check drive performance.
>>>
>>
>> Nice, thanks for testings!
>>
>
> Unfortunately, my NetBackup host is connected via 100Mbit so is getting
> about 7.5Mbytes/sec (about 25-30G/Hr).
> An Ultrium-4 drive writing to LTO3 tape is about 800G capacity. Hence the
> 'fill tape' test is still running.

The tests finally completed. All tests were successful

Cheers
Mark
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