Hmmm.... I'll hazard a guess...Seeing tapes fill up before they
should typically has to do with the way the drive is defined. We had
similar problems on an initial installation. I don't have an LTO library
at this site to compare, but I believe we had to set the read and write
formats to "ULTRIUMC".  

        Do a "q drive f=d" and see what yours looks like.

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard van Denzel
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:21 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Strange LTO2 behaviour on Linux


Hi All,

Has anyone seen this behaviour before?

Archiving on LTO2 (in an IBM 3584) and when the tape is full a second
tape is assigned an the last file of the archive is written on that
tape. Right after that the tape gets the status full, nevertheless that
there is only around 15GB of data on it. Using LTO1 tapes with the same
operation (on the same drives in the same
library) works fine.

The server is a RH Linux 3.0 AS with TSM 5.2.2.0.

Can anyone tell if this is normal behaviour or if there is a fix for
this?

Regards,

Richard.