"Russell Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Oh, good one. I remember back in the olden days with 3420's shared between > two systems (no MIA, no tape-sharing software); if CPUA was using the drive > and someone accidently varied the drive online to CPUB the job running on > CPUA kept writing to the device even though it had been un-wound. Worst part > was that the job on CPUA might not even abend if the operator saw their > mistake and cancelled the job on CPUB before it tried to write any data. > CPUA kept writing data without knowing that the device had been un-wound. So > we had to actually cancel the job and restart it; of course we had to use a > checkpoint restart from before that specific volume had even been mounted > yet so we lost a lot of time. > > Russell >
Russel, I know this situation, but in contrast to Dave's problem, in this situation (after rewinding) the labels and first files will have been overwritten. In Dave's case, this start of the tape seems OK, so it does not look like an unsollicited rewind. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
