Thomas Denier wrote: > -----Skylar Thompson wrote: ----- > > >> Our library got confused about a month ago, and started reporting >> tapes being in the wrong slots. This caused a couple tapes to have >> labels that are inconsistent with their barcodes and are in use by >> other tapes. I audited the "real" volumes, and didn't find anything >> wrong, so I don't think anything actually got written to these >> other volumes. I'm trying to return them to the scratch state, but >> TSM won't let me because before it labels them it reads the on-tape >> label rather than the barcode (even though I give label libv >> > "overwrite=yes" and "labelsource=barcode"), and the on-tape > >> label is already in a storage pool. Is there any way to really >> force TSM to overwrite the on-tape labels? >> > > I think you will have to use non-TSM facilities to remove the > existing labels. For example, if your host system is Unix you could > use dd to overwrite the beginning of the tape. You will probably > have to update a drive, path, or both to 'online=no' before you > will be able to use the drive with non-TSM tape handling software. > Depending on the tape technology, you might be able to use a bulk > eraser to remove the labels. This approach will not work for tapes > that depend on factory-supplied formatting, such as IBM Magstartapes. > Yeah. These are LTO3 cartridges, so dd is the way I went. I think bulk erasers don't play nice with LTO media.
-- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S048, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
