Look through your activity log for clues as to what's happening. It could be
tape drive problems if you're getting alot of read and/or write errors.

James Louie
Nabisco

> On Monday, July 27, 1998 6:07 PM, Ben Waldron
> [mailto:bwaldron AT ARKSYS DOT COM] wrote:
>
> Lately all of our tape volumes wind up with an error state of
> YES.  Any
> ideas of how to trouble shoot this or what triggers an error
> state?  We
> have an AS/400 server with the ARCHIVE dasd storage pool set
> to migrate to
> a tape storage pool with low threshold of 0% and high threshold of 1%.
> Sometimes we migrate to 8mm tape and sometimes to 1/4 inch cartridge.
>