Even if something has gone awry there is no way to fix it now, but you can read the tape and dump it if you have a utility for your tape drive to read and dump a tape.
If you have Magstar or IBM LTO (I think it is available for IBM LTO), they provide a utility to dump blocks of data off the tape. Not sure what you will find, but you can look anyway. The utility is tapeutil and is installed when you install the Magstar or LTO driver. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Michelle DeVault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: query tape volume that is no longer known to TSM I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. I've got a couple of "orphaned" tapes at our off-site facility. They don't show up in TSM at all (q volume, q drmedia, q volhist). I'm assuming that they are old database tapes that got deleted from the volhistory before the list of tapes to return from off-site was generated (the guy that handles this tends to wait too long to recall stuff from off-site). So the question is, once I get these tapes back from off-site, is there any utility/command I can run on them to see what is on them, just to make sure that something else even more screwy hasn't gone on? Thanks, M. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
