You may want to use tapeutil to figure this out. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
-----Original Message----- From: Pearson, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: labeling 3590 volumes hi again... I think the command I gave you will overwrite all the info. Ignore my last statement. Sorry Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Jolliff, Dale [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: labeling 3590 volumes > > Is there anyway to overwrite the header/label of a 3590 tape? > > One of our ATLs had a problem with some 3590 drives and chewed up the > header records. > The assumption is that the tape is good, the header records are just bad. > > I would restore the volumes from the copypools, but it just so > happened that the two volumes that got whacked were a primary and the > copy of the primary > -- > > Anyway, I'm hoping there is a way to get TSM to overwrite the header > records without destroying the data. If there isn't, we are going to > try using dd to recreate the headers. > > Anybody ever done that successfully?
