Nick Laflamme wrote:
In an attempt to bullet-proof my system from Yet Another Mistake
Operators Make, I used TAPE WVOL1 to put standard labels on the seven
cartridges we use for nightly SPXTAPE dumps and changed how our
DUMPNSS SVM invokes our home-grown TMS so it now asks the TMS to
verify the label on the tape before the drive is attached to the SVM.
I also ran manual tests in which I did SPXTAPE dumps to each of the
seven tapes after labelling them, rewound them, and made sure that
TAPE DVOL1 still showed a tape label. It seemed to work as I expected.
Now I find that after a week of this, mounts of these seven volumes
are failing because there's not standard label on these tapes.
Is what I'm trying supposed to work?
I don't know how to put an explanation into the list archives without
also making all of you read it, so, here goes....
My predecessor put code into the routine that calls SPXTAPE to first:
TAPE WTM 10
Yeah, that'll nuke a volume label, just a little bit. Otherwise, what
I'm trying to do should work just fine.
Gun, bullet, foot, predecessor's trigger finger!
Sigh,
Nick
