why not read the first fiew blocks from the tape with dd and look at them with 
od or strings?




On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:44, Stan Horwitz wrote:
> My NetWorker server and tape library are a few blocks away so its a
> bit of a pain for me to visually inspect our tape library and I am
> hoping to find a way to avoid that on this hot day. I have a tape
> that's one of several hundred in my tape library that NetWorker
> 7.1..3 (under Solaris 9) refuses to deal with. Last night, NetWorker
> tried to label this tape and it failed and kept retrying. I
> intervened from home by labeling a different tape into the
> appropriate tape pool.
>
> After I got to work this morning, I tried to manually label the
> troublesome tape with nsrjb -L and it failed. NetWorker said the tape
> was already labeled. I tried to inventory just that tape, but
> NetWorker says it has no label. Doing an "nsrjb -C" shows no label on
> the tape in question. If I try to mount the tape via "nsrjb -l -R" I
> get an error that says it cannot be labeled because "Unknown pool" is
> not available. So I created a tape pool called "Unknown pool" and I
> got the same response when I tried to load the tape. I am trying to
> figure out what label is on this tape so I can remove it from the
> media database.
>
> How do I resolve this issue remotely? I know there's a way to
> identify the printed label on a tape, but damned if I don't remember
> how. I tried "nsrjb -p" but that also complained about the "unknown
> pool."
>
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