I was able to fix the problem with writing to an MTF1 formatted tape by adding 
the following to the bp.conf file:

ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = MTF1

Surprisingly, I did not have to restart the daemons on my Solaris 2.6 server as 
was suggested.  I also called
Veritas about their level of support for V106 firmware on DLT7000 drives.  They 
do support V106 firmware.
The Veritas compatilbility website says V95 is supported, but I verified that 
they support V95 and above, although
there are some issues with V106 for ACS robot types.

Thanks to all of you who provided help.

Gina Robinson
UNIX System Administrator
TRW E-enterprise

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Giannetto [mailto:charlieg AT ic.sunysb DOT edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:46 AM
To: Cornely, David
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] DLT Tape Containing MTF1-format data


David,

  I believe the v95 drive firmware is available from Sun as patch id
108437-04 (public patch, no support contract required). The firmware
update utility provided is a sparc executable but if you have another that
will run on your platform, you may still be able to use the firmware in
that patch to get what you want.

Regards,

Charlie
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Cornely, David wrote:

> Also, be aware that Veritas does NOT support v106 firmware for DLT7000
> drives.  v95 is as high as they.  However, storagetek says v95 is so old
> they can't even get it.  What a wonderful web they weave...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: Robinson Gina
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT Tape Containing MTF1-format data
>
>
> Put this in bp.conf:
>
> ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = MTF1
>
> Add any other formats you see fit...
>
> ~JK
>
> "Robinson, Gina" wrote:
> >
> > I am running Veritas Netbackup DataCenter 3.4.1 patched at NB_34_2.  I
> have DLT7000 drives in an STK9710 which were
> > just upgraded to V106 microcode yesterday.  I put several DLT tapes back
> in the robot for reuse and received an error in the
> > logs that reads:
> >
> >     FREEZING media id 001767, it contains MTF1-format data and cannot be
> used for backups.
> >
> > Has anyone ever seen this before or know how to deal with it?
> >
> > Gina Robinson
> >
> > UNIX System Administrator (CSA)
> > Phone:  (310) 813-4202
> > Fax:      (310) 813-6212
> >
> >
> >
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> >              Encoding: base64
> >
> >                       Name: Blank Bkgrd.gif
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> >                   Encoding: base64
>
> --
> =====================
> Jeff Kennedy
> Unix Administrator
> AMCC
> jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com
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