I've seen some sites do an "upd vol acc=readwrite whereacc=readonly"
automatically every day, just to compensate for TSM's annoying habit of
marking tapes bad whemever there's a drive failure.

That is, any tape marked readonly is assumed to be readonly simply
because it was in a drive when the drive had a problem.

Pretty heavy-handed. Anybody have an easy way to do it better?

GERARD Jean Michel wrote:
>
> We are having similar problems. Whenever there is an I/O error, the =
> tape is
> put automatically in READ ONLY by ADSM. We are used to do an AUDIT =
> VOLUME
> XXXXX FIX=3DYES  on this XXXX tape and then a MOVE DATA XXXX =
> Stgpoll=3DYYYYYY
> We write down the tape number somewhere in order to follow other =
> possible
> errors on this tape but we keep it on line.
>
> An other tricky I/O error occurred and it was because of the light =
> inside
> the library that interfered with the LCD camera of the robot. Now we =
> have
> switched off the light and covered the windows of the library. It works
> better but we still have random errors.
> I hope it helps.
>
> Jean-Michel G=E9rard
> COFINOGA - France
> E-mail: jm.gerard AT cofinoga DOT fr
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De:   Antonio Di Feo [SMTP:Antonio_Di_Feo AT BPM DOT IT]
> > Date: jeudi 13 avril 2000 14:04
> > =C0:  ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Objet:        Errors DLT Tapes
> >=20
> > I have installed ADSMV2 for OS/2 SMP on IBM Netfinity 5500/7000 , =
> with a
> > DLT
> > Drive Qantum 4000 that supported DLT Tape IV.Sometime i have two =
> tipology
> > of
> > problems about ADSM / DLT Tape.
> >  The first is "simple" I/0 Error Tape , with code error ADSM
> > Anr8353e.Other
> > error that is present  frequentily is mountwait timeout (ANR8351e) , =
> also
> > if the
> > tape is corretly mounted.
> > Do you have any exsperience about ?
> > It's necessary to change the tape everytime?
> > Thanks, Antonio.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Mr. Lindsay Morris
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Gresham Enterprise Storage
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