Even if something has gone awry there is no way to fix it now, but you can
read the tape and dump it if you have a utility for your tape drive to read
and dump a tape.

If you have Magstar or IBM LTO (I think it is available for IBM LTO), they
provide a utility to dump blocks of data off the tape.  Not sure what you
will find, but you can look anyway.  The utility is tapeutil and is
installed when you install the Magstar or LTO driver.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle DeVault [mailto:adsmigmo AT YAHOO DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:56 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: query tape volume that is no longer known to TSM


I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm
gonna ask it anyway.

I've got a couple of "orphaned" tapes at our off-site
facility.  They don't show up in TSM at all (q volume,
q drmedia, q volhist).  I'm assuming that they are old
database tapes that got deleted from the volhistory
before the list of tapes to return from off-site was
generated (the guy that handles this tends to wait too
long to recall stuff from off-site).

So the question is, once I get these tapes back from
off-site, is there any utility/command I can run on
them to see what is on them, just to make sure that
something else even more screwy hasn't gone on?

Thanks,
M.

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