Did you specify OVERWRITE=YES in the label command?

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Vittands [mailto:Pete.Vittands AT SSIUTILITYSUITE DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re-using tapes from Backup Exec


Hello all, I have not posted here before and I am fairly new to TSM so
please bear with me. I am trying to re use tapes from Backup Exec with
Tivoli 5.1.5.  This is a proof of concept server.  It has a single manual
DLT drive to use.  Many of the Automated library commands are unavailable
with this manual drive.  When I try to label the tape using the GUI wizard
it notifies me the tape is write protected.  But it is not physically write
protected.  I was able to successfully use a new DLT tape.  Does anyone know
of some type of low level format for these tapes?  Or way to force this. I
am running TSM on a windows 2000 server with the drive internal. This is a
temporary environment until we get our real environment up and running for
TSM.


Pete Vittands
Technical Systems Analyst

Systems & Software, Inc.
e:  pete.vittands AT ssiutilitysuite DOT com
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