On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:05:11 -0500, John Benik <[email protected]> wrote:
>We have the need to erase any residual data on some stacked backend vsm >tapes. I've heard you can do this with FATS/FATAR but wondered if there is >any other method to do this? Everything else I have seen seems to require >the tapes be added to your tape management system and even then there is >some doubt that this will work. > As long as you have a host attached drive of the [1] same type that can read / write to it, you can do it. Some time ago we converted 9840B to 9840C for our VSM back end only and we had to add 1 9840C as a host drive in order to do use FATS/FATAR analysis of bad tapes. It's a good idea to do this anyway in case you have to use any of the secret or documented utilities (like RTV) that need to read the MVC from MVS. [1] 9840A/9840B read/write the same format. Speed is the difference. 9840A/9840B can initialize / erase a tape previously created by 9840C/9840D since the media is the same. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
