RE: CHKTAP?

I agree with that method.  I have just found out that we are not keeping
'unique' vol id;s associated with our tapes.  They get initialized over
periods of time with different vol id's.  I will be changing this shortly!
Thanks, Larry


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Larry Ketzes
Senior Security Project Analyst
American Life Insurance Company

One ALICO Plaza
600 King Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-594-2146
Mobile: 302-559-1631
Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx


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Al Barsa
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 9:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: CHKTAP?

There are never any guarantees that you will be able to use a tape.

INZTAP CLEAR(*YES) gives you some sort of a clue, but no guarantee.

Your best bet is to uniquely initialize each tape, and initialize only once
or with the same NEWVOL parameter each time.

You can then run DSPERRLOG *VOLSTAT for that tape, and see if the number of
errors is high.

Al

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Folks.

Does anyone know of a command that can be executed that will check to see
if
a tape can be read properly all the way through.  I had a media error, and
I
want to ensure that the tape can actually be read if needed.  I thought
that
the CHKTAP command did that, but after reading the description of the
command's help text, I'm not sure if this command will actually try to read
all of the tape.

Thanks, Larry

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Larry Ketzes
Senior Security Project Analyst
American Life Insurance Company

One ALICO Plaza
600 King Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-594-2146
Mobile: 302-559-1631
Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx


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