> Not that I think John meant this, but least anyone conclude that in
> all cases: status == ERROR means you must recyle, it does not.
>
>
> Sometimes the status gets set to ERROR and you can simply reset the
> status to APPEND (via the bconsole command: UPDATE VOLUME).  This
> used to happen regularly when three was a VOLUME FILES count error
> (the Catalog would think there were 6 files in the Volume, when the
> real count was something else; e.g. 3 or 7).
>
Thanks Dan. I knew in his case that the tape was corrupted but in the
second example I did not know that setting the tape to append would
work. I have had this happen a few times with a specific windows 2003
server and I just ended up reusing the tapes.

John

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