hi,

the tape drive enforces the WORM concept, not the TSM server, so as soon as a 
WORM tape is full, it is really full and can never be made empty again, that's 
why it's called a WORM tape. So even if you delete all data from the tape in 
TSM, the tape still retains that data, you just can't access it anymore from 
TSM, because TSM thinks it's been deleted.

So, yes, if the tape is full, and contains no useful data anymore for your 
organisation, have the tape destroyed according to your company's media 
handling policies.

On 21 nov. 2012, at 08:32, Michael Roesch <michael.roesch AT GMAIL DOT COM> 
wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> we wanted to use WORM tapes we had already used on TSM server A, with a new
> TSM server B. Problem now is that although TSM B doesn't "know" these WORM
> tapes, he still refuses to write on them. It writes about 2 GBytes and the
> says "End of volume reached" and then tries the next scratch WORM tape.
> 
> So the solution would be, throw away the old ones and buy new ones?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards,
> Michael

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