On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:12 AM, TSM User wrote:
As I can know the label of a volume that doesn't have external label (manual drive)????
Thank you
If the sticker fell off the tape, you can use an OS utility to dump the first few records of the tape, where a hex display will allow you to determine the volume name. (Remember that IBM standard labels are in EBCDIC.) Topic "Tape labels" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts provides some guidance in that area.
And consider that the sticker could possibly have dislodged while in the drive.
FWIW, I've updated my http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ProgrammingExamples.html web page to include a sample C program for interpreting tape labels, which has been useful to me in the past, and which may be of some help to you. Whereas I developed it from my own point of view, I'd be happy to entertain feedback for generalizing it based upon the experiences of others.
Richard Sims
