These are 8mm tapes, in good condition, shiny and
unwrinkled, except where the tape drive mangled them
at the very beginning of the two tapes.  We suspect
that the problem reading the label is that the tapes
were labeled, and written to, over five years ago.  We
are beginning to get more errors on older tapes, and
suspect that the signal is simply getting weak.  We
are in the process of copying all the data to new
tapes.  Yes, the data is lost, but if IBM's "move
data" command would let us get past the label, we
could probably recover most, or all, of the data.

--- "Mecki M." <rmeschon AT OTELO.IBMMAIL DOT COM> wrote:
> Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:00:53 +0100
> Date:         Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:00:53 +0100
> Reply-to:     "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> From:         "Mecki M."
> <rmeschon AT OTELO.IBMMAIL DOT COM>
> Subject:      Antwort: Problem restoring files from
> copy pool
> To:           ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
> Hi Vern,
>
> what kind of tapes are you using? I've had problems
> with some bad 3570
> tapes, the errors
> occured reading a label but the whole tape was
> unreadable although ADSM
> reports that the
> data was good. I have been able to restore from my
> copypool and was able to
> re-label
> the tape but then there were errors writing data to
> that volume, I looked
> at the tape itself and
> there were 'waves' so I send it back to warranty.
>
> I didn't hope that both of your tapes are destroyed,
> so that your data is
> lost.
>
> Regards
>      Mecki
>

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