A scratch tape can't be read-only (can it?) so I suppose therefore the
status is changed to Private to prevent re-access. Makes sense to me.

Martijn.


> ----------
> Van:  Jackie Balboni[SMTP:JBALBONI AT OCEANSPRAY DOT COM]
> Verzonden:    dinsdag 16 maart 1999 16:52
> Aan:  ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Onderwerp:    Re: Tape I/O error
>
> I haqd this happen to me also. I called it the phantom tapes. Because ADSM
> is changing the acc it can only be private or scratch.
>
> >>> "Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM" <Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT NL> 03/16 10:39 AM >>>
> Hi ADSM-ers!
> Today I encountered I/O errors on a tape. ADSM reported this like this:
>
> ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 0371D8 in drive RMT1
> (/dev/rmt1).
> ANR8778W Scratch volume 0371D8 changed to Private Status to prevent
> re-access.
>
> Changed to Private???? Shouldn't ADSM mark the tape read-only???
> How else can I see that there is something wrong with this tape? The only
> way to find this out is to compare the Q VOLUME list with the Q LIBVOL
> list
> and manually track the differences.
> Is this behavior correct?
> Kindest regards,
> Eric van Loon
>