Hi Jerry,
I have some questions :
* What VTL product are you using?
* What kind of connection are you using?
* Are you using BRMS?
* Have you tried to enable/disable the TAPMLBxx?
* Can you share the complete error message you get when trying to
initialize the tape?
* Are your virtual tape cartridges hosted on the VTL box or using an
external Cloud Object Storage/Storage Account/Object Storage Device?
* If so… can you connect manually to the remote repository?
* Is your VTL showing any activity/connection/error message?
* Can you try to create just 1 virtual tape cartridge in your VTL to
check if it is working properly?
I have seen something similar with Falconstor VTL when the connection to
the Object Storage fails, and some cartridges show errors. In some cases
we had to re-create the virtual tape cartridges showing error to fix the
issue.
Diego E. Kesselman
[1]diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx
El 11/03/25, 8:19 a.m., "[NOMBRE]" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:
Hello Jerry,
Am 11.03.2025 um 13:29 schrieb (WalzCraft) Jerry Forss
<[2]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
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