G'Day,
I am trying to read a virtual tape that went into scratch status. The tape
has not been reused since it went scratch. The job abends with a
IEC145I 413-08. I had the tape analyzed and it shows the following:
UNIT DEVICE SERIAL MFR CARTRIDGE
667D VIRTUAL A15886 IBM 800 MB
FATAR DETAIL REPORT
LOCK LNGTH/ MESSAGE/ 1...5...10...15...20...25...30...35...4
UMBER DISPL BLOCK TYPE (COLUMN GRID IS VALID ONLY FO
* * * * * * * START FILE 1H
1 80 INPUT LABEL VOL1A15886
***VOLUME LABEL*** VOLSER=A15886 OWNER=
2 80 INPUT LABEL HDR100000000000000000000000000000000000
***HEADER LABEL*** DSNAME=00000000000000000 SERIAL=00
CRTDT=000000 EXPDT=000000 SECURITY
* * * * * * * END OF FILE 1H -- FILE CONTAINED 2 BLOCKS
* * * * * * * START FILE 1
TS096 **END OF DATA MARK ENCOUNTERED. BLOCK ID=00000003
It seems that the tape is empty. My question is if the tape goes scratch the
data cannot be recovered even though it has not been overwritten?
I have no problems with physical tapes which have gone scratch and not reused.
I would appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks.
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