Re: InzTap failing

Hello Jerry,

Am 11.03.2025 um 13:29 schrieb (WalzCraft) Jerry Forss <JForss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Ok, this makes NO sense.

Yesterday the system went down hard.
An outside company was going to do a fire alarm testing and threw the wrong breaker and brought down the data center!!!
WTH?!?!?!

Networks, IBMi, phones, UPS. Everything.

Well, a good opportunity to test if everything works well after an outage. :-)

We use a VTL for out nightly backups.
Part of the backup does a INZTAP and has *ULTRIUM5 in Density as that is what we had and still have as needed for a physical tape.

The INZTAP failed last night saying it is an invalid density. NOTHING has changed.

Why in the H....eck would this fail now?

I don't know. But why do you use any density setting at all? Aside from formatting older QIC cartridges on newer drives, I've not seen any reason to not leave density at *devtype, and let the drive figure out what to do. Works provenly well for DDS1, 2 and 3 cartridges in DDS3 drives, LTO1 tapes in LTO2 drives, and LTO3 tapes in LTO4 drives. Should not be any different for VTL.

:wq! PoC