Yes, abort the job. Put in another tape and try again.
If it happens again with 2 to 4 more tapes, I'd start giving the tape drive the evil eye.
Toss the tapes, SYSGEN will mark them bad so they can't be used again ... anyway.
Tracy Johnson
Business Analyst
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
1000 Lucas Way
Hampton, VA 23666
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greg Terterian
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Bad Tape
>
> Does anyone know what kind of error will Sysgen generate when
> it gets a bad tape? I want to stop the job, so it will not
> continue, if there is a bad tape... but having a hard time to
> figure out as how can I know its a bad tape?
>
>
>
> I am thinking to check the CIERROR or JCW, but dont know what
> to check for. Any help or direction will be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Here is the error from SYSGEN
>
>
>
> STORE ENCOUNTERED MEDIA WRITE ERROR ON LDEV 7 (S/R 1454)
>
> SPECIFICALLY, STORE RECEIVED ERROR -35 FROM THE IO
>
> SYSTEM (S/R 1557)
>
>
>
>
>
> **error** Tape command failed.
>
> SYSGEN tape is NO GOOD!
>
> **error** Can't rewind tape
>
> I/O TIME-OUT (FSERR 27)
>
>
>
> +-F-I-L-E---I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N---D-I-S-P-L-A-Y+
>
> ! FILE NAME IS SYSGTAPE !
>
> (19923/19947) Continue?
>
> ! FOPTIONS: NEW,BINARY,FORMAL,U,NOCCTL,FEQ !
>
> ! NOLABEL !
>
> ! AOPTIONS: OUTPUT,NOMR,NOLOCK,DEF,NOBUF !
>
> ! NOMULTI,WAIT,NOCOPY !
>
> ! DEVICE TYPE: 24 DEVICE SUBTYPE: 7 !
>
> ! LDEV: 7 DRT: 7 UNIT: 0 !
>
> ! RECORD SIZE: 8192 BLOCK SIZE: 8192 (WORDS) !
>
> ! EXTENT SIZE: 0 MAX EXTENTS: 0 !
>
> ! RECPTR: 0 RECLIMIT: 0 !
>
> ! LOGCOUNT: 13670 PHYSCOUNT: 13670 !
>
> ! EOF AT: 0 LABEL ADDR: %00000000000 !
>
> ! FILE CODE: 0 ULABELS: 0 !
>
> ! FILE OWNER: !
>
> ! PHYSICAL STATUS: 0100000100000001 !
>
> ! ERROR NUMBER: 27 RESIDUE: 5120 (BYTES) !
>
> ! BLOCK NUMBER: 13670 NUMREC: 1 !
>
> +------------------------------------------------+
>
> sysgen>
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