No worries. If TSM had already put data on the tape, you would have gotten a different message, TSM would not have called it a scratch tape. And TSM will not LET you update the tape to Scratch if there is any valid data on it.
Just do: UPDATE LIBV libname ITG043L2 STATUS=SCRATCH On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Alexander Lazarevich <alaza...@itg.uiuc.edu > wrote: > TSM 5.3.4 on Windows 2K server. > Library is Overland Neo 4000 with 2 HP LTO2 drives. > > I've got a libvol LTO2 that was marked as "private" by the server due to a > drive error: > > ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive MT1.0.0.4 (mt1.0.0.4) with > volume ITG043L2(OP=READ, Error Number= 1117, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=11, > Description=Drive or media failure). > ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume ITG043L2 drive MT1.0.0.4 > (mt1.0.0.4). > ANR8778W Scratch volume ITG043L2 changed to Private Status to prevent > re-access. > > I've since cleaned the drive, and that has fixed the problem, I don't > think the media is actually bad. But there was probably some data on the > tape, and I want to try and get the data back, if possible. > > The only way I see to access this tape is to update the libvol to > "scratch", but then the server would think it's a blank tape, right? > > How to I mark the tape as available to the server again? I can't see any > way to do that? > > Thanks! > > Alex >
