Craig Bell recently posted this message to this list, addressing that
question.

The "help <msg number>" seems like a very nice feature.

Kent

As for the lost VCR data, did you know that you can do "help <msg number>"
and get all the answers to your questions?   Issuing "help 8776" on the
admin client returns:

adsm> help 8776
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANR8776W  VOLUME volume name IN DRIVE drive name CONTAINS LOST VCR DATA;
ANR8776W  VOLUME volume name IN DRIVE drive name CONTAINS LOST VCR DATA;
PERFORMANCE MAY BE DEGRADED.

EXPLANATION:  The Vital Cartridge Records of the cartridge in the drive are
lost or corrupted.  This results in the inability of the drive to do fast
locates to file positions on the cartridge, which causes the locate
performance

for read or append operations to become degraded.

SYSTEM ACTION:  The server continues the operation.

USER RESPONSE:  There are two methods to restore the VCR data.  The first
method uses the MOVE DATA command to move the data off the tape and to return
the tape to scratch or empty status.  The VCR data is rebuilt when the empty
tape is rewritten from the beginning-of-tape. The second method rebuilds the
VCR by loading the tape and locating directly to the end-of-data.  This is
done

by ADSM in normal use when new data is appended to the end of the tape.  It
can

also be done independently of ADSM by loading the tape in an unused drive and
using the tapeutil program.  Select the tapeutil option "Space to
End-of-Data".


On Jun 3, 12:46am, Fred Urso wrote:
> Subject: Message ANR8776W
> Has anyone seen this message before, I ma still looking thru ADSM manuals
but have not located
> the messsage yet.
>
>          ANR8776W Volume 019139 in drive DRIVE1 (/dev/rmt3)
>                   contains lost VCR data; performance may be degraded.
>
> What causes this?? I have a few tapes like this and trying to restore to
clients is impossible
> the only way around right now is to perform a move data.
>
> It is happening on my Magstar 3570 (2 drives).
>
> Any help would be appreciated..
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Urso
> Midrange Services                    IBM AIX Certified Specialist
> ISM (Member of IBM Global Services)
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>-- End of excerpt from Fred Urso



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