>I observed some strange behaviour of a 3590-E1A tape drive. During a
>migrate operation from a disk pool to a sequential pool I watched the
>operator panel. There I could see that the device after a write operation
>did a locate followed by a read and then resumed writing. I observed this
>behaviour several times. Is there an explanation for this?


Hello Gerhard

I.m not sure, but one could guess that the drive was doing some
[successful] error
recovery operation or perhaps some internal drive calibration ?

Regards

Peter