Oh yes, we see this from time to time. We used to have a lot more of these sorts of errors, and have spent considerable time working with IBM on this sort of thing since moving to 3584 libraries. Early on, a lot of tape drives were replaced; sometimes, having the drive calibrated seems to help. We've got microcode upgrades scheduled soon, which I'm hoping helps, but that's still an open question. There doesn't seem to be a good fix for this as yet; all we've been able to do is periodically check for these tapes and update them, and keep reporting problems to IBM.
_________________________________ Kathleen Hallahan Freddie Mac Distributed Backups 703-450-3317 "Aaron Durkee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 10/13/2005 12:44 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject volumes being marked seen as write protected Hi All, Wondering if anyone else has seen this yet? Volumes scratch and private are being seen as write protected and either marked as unavailable (those with data) or private (scratch volumes) When I eject the tape its not write protected. Its a 3584 tape library and I'm pretty sure both the gen 1 and gen 2 drives are doing this, but need to investigate details more. All the media is gen 1. TSM server 5.3.1.4 on AIX 5.3 connected via 3534 fiber switches. 10/13/05 04:04:39 ANR8463E LTO volume 894ACT is write protected. 10/13/05 04:04:57 ANR8778W Scratch volume 894ACT changed to Private Status to prevent re-access. Thanks in advace, Aaron Aaron Durkee Infrastructure Analyst Networking and Technical Group Catholic Health Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (716) 862-1713 fax: (716) 862-1717