Hi,

1) Yes. We have had a couple of scsi tapedrive/card and cabling problems
which resulted in TSM thinking that there were problems which the tape.
2) select volume_name, stgpool_name, write_errors, read_errors  from volumes
where write_errors>0 or read_errors>0 gives you al the tapes. Doing audit
volume and move data and restore volumes gives you back the volume. Still
you don't know if in fact it is a media failure.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:alazarev AT HERA.ITG.UIUC DOT EDU]
Verzonden: woensdag 2 oktober 2002 20:12
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: bad tapes


I've got a pretty simple question:

some of my tapes are automatically turning to READ ONLY state. That's cool
I assume the server detects a read/write error, then sets the tape to READ
ONLY.

1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets
it to READ ONLY?

2) where is the log for read/write errors. only way i know of is looking
at the >dsmadmc -console window and seeing it as it scrolls by. i want to
confirm a tape had read/write errors before i remove it from the library.

thanks in advnace,

alex
---                                                        ---
   Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group
   alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
---                                                        ---