My system keeps marking DDS2 tapes read only. What do you think is going on?
How do you recycle these tapes (there are too many to be defective tapes, I
believe).

TIA

Orin Rehorst

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Hohmann
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 7:50 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: recovering after an error on DDS2 volume
>
> Didn't You do a backup storagepool?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Anton Gubarkov [SMTP:Anton.Gubarkov AT SONY DOT RU]
> Sent:   Friday, March 26, 1999 2:36 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        recovering after an error on DDS2 volume
>
> Hello, colleagues,
>
> Could anyone give me a clue? It seems to me that when my DDS2 drive
> (SONY
> SDT-S5000) encounters a read error (in fact ADSM server reports 'too
> many
> read errors') the server cannot read this tape past this point. I
> talked to
> DDS guys in our labs and they say that DDS drive itself is quite
> capable of
> reading data past this condition and place. So according to them it
> appears
> to be the software problem. So should I have a drop out in the
> beginning of
> a volume - all volume's data are lost?
>
> Auditing this volume just removes all the files past the errorneous
> one.
>
> I have OS/2 ADSM server v 1.2.0.9.
>
> regards,
> Anton Gubarkov, storage manager at SONY CIS, Moscow