Bonetti, Dan J. wrote:
>
> Just a general question to see if any one else has ran into this
> problem.
>
> We are running a 3494 library with 8 3590 tape drives. We are also
> running Adsm on an AIX system (4.1.5).  Heres my problem....one of our
> tapes has a blown label. I do not know of any utility or commands that
> will allow me to do a tape-to-tape copy from the bad tape to a scratch
> that I can re-label as the the bad tape.
>
> There is a dsp utility on MVS, which allows me to copy from tape to tape
> (This is under a Jes3 system *X TT). Does anyone know of anything on
> AIX.
>
> I have tried to do a copy from tape drive to tape drive, treating it as
> a file system. ex  cp /dev/rmt3 /dev/rmt4 .  With the blown label, it
> will not allow me to do this. I also have tried the unix  dd  command  .
> ex. dd -if=/dev/rmt3 of=/dev/rmt4 skip=     . This also does not work.
> so, to restate my question, is there any way to recover a blown label on
> a 3590 tape.



        try:  tcopy /dev/rmt3 /dev/rmt4

        This will take a while (3 hours or so) but it is a bit for bit
        tape copy.  If you know the BlockSize you could employ a dd,
        which is much faster.

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