On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:46:47PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> >I'm assuming you can run nsrim -p or nsrjb -p on any of these tapes and
> >always see the correct label?  
> 
> I hadn't tried using 'nsrjb -p', only 'nsrjb -I' and that sometimes 
> works and sometimes fails with the message about the 'NULL' label, and 
> also sometimes fails on some different volume that was previously 
> working. But, I have found that if I repeat the tests in a different 
> drive, it often works, and all the drives are at the same firmware, 
> although an older release.
> 
> Didn't realize nsrim had a '-p' option? Didn't think this managed tapes, 
> only indexes?

Typo.  I meant to type 'nsrmm'.  

> What if nsrjb offers mixed results but scanner always sees the label?

If scanner always works, it would suggest to me that the "tape" (and OS,
and drivers..) always works, so it must be nsrjb that's doing something
different.  Seems odd, though.  I haven't really heard of that before.

-- 
Darren

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