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[Networker] Labelled write protected tape

2010-09-01 05:20:04
Subject: [Networker] Labelled write protected tape
From: Jonathan Natividad <cypherworks AT YAHOO DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 02:07:57 -0700
A colleage accidentally labelled a physically write protected tape which I have 
loaded for a restore.  The tape now shows 0% utilised.  Scanning the tape will 
come up with an "fn 2 rn 0 read error More data is available" error.

I tried scanner -f 3 it didn't work, neither did -f 4 -f 5 etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't appear like a block size issue as the 
tape block size is 128k and the device maximum block size exceeds that.  I 
would 
like to believe that the data is still in there because the tape is physically 
write protected.


\\.\Tape0:
        Media Capacity  = 37.25GByte
        Media Remaining = 28.65GByte
        Media Blocksize = 0
        Media Partition Count = 1
        Media is not write protected
        default blocksize = 65536
        maximum blocksize = 524288
        minimum blocksize = 1
        MaximumPartitionCount = 1
        Partition = 0
        ...


Thanks!
Jonathan


      

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