>To answer the part of your question about the lock position, the tape >lock position doesn't matter when you're trying to read (recover) a >dataset from the tape. It isn't actually a tape lock, it is a >read/write lock - if it is set in the lock position, you can't write >anything new to the tape. It doesn't lock the tape from reading.
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