We have been discovering, on a somewhat infrequent basis,
tapes that go physically to read-only onthe tab  in our 3494.

And yet each time I can produce logs that show the file was
written on since the last time the robot door was opened/closed.

In other words I can only believe that the tab is marginally write enable
when  the robot slams it back into its slot and causes it to go read-only

.. joe.f.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
   joef AT socrates.berkeley DOT edu

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Larry Way wrote:

> What determines if a tape is write protected?  Had discovered that tape were 
> in a status of Private but not being used.  I updated the volume and placed 
> in scratch but when TSM attempts to use as scratch he says that the volume is 
> write protected ?  Can't explain why this is happening...
>
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