No worries.
If TSM had already put data on the tape, you would have gotten a different
message, TSM would not have called it a scratch tape.
And TSM will not LET you update the tape to Scratch if there is any valid
data on it.

Just do:

UPDATE LIBV libname ITG043L2 STATUS=SCRATCH

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Alexander Lazarevich <alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT 
edu
> wrote:

> TSM 5.3.4 on Windows 2K server.
> Library is Overland Neo 4000 with 2 HP LTO2 drives.
>
> I've got a libvol LTO2 that was marked as "private" by the server due to a
> drive error:
>
> ANR8944E Hardware or media error on drive MT1.0.0.4 (mt1.0.0.4) with
> volume ITG043L2(OP=READ, Error Number= 1117, CC=306, KEY=03, ASC=11,
> Description=Drive or media failure).
> ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume ITG043L2 drive MT1.0.0.4
> (mt1.0.0.4).
> ANR8778W Scratch volume ITG043L2 changed to Private Status to prevent
> re-access.
>
> I've since cleaned the drive, and that has fixed the problem, I don't
> think the media is actually bad. But there was probably some data on the
> tape, and I want to try and get the data back, if possible.
>
> The only way I see to access this tape is to update the libvol to
> "scratch", but then the server would think it's a blank tape, right?
>
> How to I mark the tape as available to the server again? I can't see any
> way to do that?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
>