RE: Duplicating 5 tapes takes 6?????

It sounds like you may have a tape-cart ready for the scrap heap.  Check in
SST, Start a service tool, Product activity log, work with removable media,
select the media type and sort by volume id

This may help to identify the bad tape, though when duptap'ing , volids are
dup'ed too so it may not be easy ... good luck

Kind regards,

Jeffrey E. Bull
OS400 Software Support Consultant

IBM Certified Systems Expert, iSeries Technical Solutions
IBM Certified Systems Specialist, AS/400 System Administration

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-----Original Message-----
From: CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 June 2004 14:57
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Duplicating 5 tapes takes 6?????


We have the 3570 tape library.  Our full system save takes 5 tapes.  After
the last full save, I used the DUPTAP command like always to make a
duplicate copy.  I ended up needing 6 tapes for the duplication.

Anybody seen this before?  How/why would six tapes be used when duplicating
5?

Note: BRMS is not used.

Thanks,
Charles
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