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    Thank you for considering my suggestion regarding the error message! Actually, yesterday, I was tempted to clear or format the tape. Though, last week, I initiated what I thought was a short erase but clearing the tape lasted hours. So fiddling...
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    I finally solved it. The parameter MaxRecvDataSegmentLength was 8192. set parameter MaxRecvDataSegmentLength=262144 in targetcli did not fix the issue. The reason was the small tar archive previously written to the tape for testing purposes. It...
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    Upgraded to PBS 4.2.7, rebooted. Can get the status of the tape library and can read the test data I have previously written to the tape from PBS, but now labeling the tape fails immediately in another way: root@pbs:~# proxmox-tape label --drive...
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    It's ISCSI/LIO. Here is the relevant part in the log (repeating) after issuing the label command: [ +0.000006] Known ACL iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:eac885df5da1 is trying to connect [ +0.000008] Entering iscsi_target_restore_sock_callbacks...
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    That sounds promising, so let's go. I choose a systematic reproducible approach. *** 1 Power on the Quantum Superloader 3 (QSL3) and wait until it settles into "System Ready" state. *** 2 Power on the target host (Debian 13.7) and wait until...
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    Thanks for the tips. I already got quite deep into these things recently. The drive and the library on the target are referenced by-id because the generic device names /dev/sg0 /dev/sg1 ... are randomly assigned after a restart of the machine...
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    I run PBS 4.2.6. A Quantum Superloader 3 is connected via iSCSI. The iSCSI target is a Debian 13.7. PBS web interface shows the library slots and drives. I have a LTO-8 cartridge in the drive which is labeled BN0001L8. proxmox-tape...
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