HPSS issue, January 2019


Does not look all good, some drive shows errors and retries and as a result, the speed per drive per second is very low (LTO7 is 300 MB/sec theoretical, we measured easily 200 MB/sec/drives)




On an empty system (no  more restores) the two drives/tapes showing problems have made no progress after 2 hours.




The files still in the system are from


Submitted/In Progress jaenam 5 Waiting for HPSS response
  starlib 571 Waiting for HPSS response

I cannot unqueue them unless a forced tape eject is issued.