>I observed some strange behaviour of a 3590-E1A tape drive. During a >migrate operation from a disk pool to a sequential pool I watched the >operator panel. There I could see that the device after a write operation >did a locate followed by a read and then resumed writing. I observed this >behaviour several times. Is there an explanation for this?
Hello Gerhard I.m not sure, but one could guess that the drive was doing some [successful] error recovery operation or perhaps some internal drive calibration ? Regards Peter