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Title:	Storage Library System

Moderator:	COOKIE::REUTER

Created:	Sun Oct 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2270
Total number of notes:	7850

2204.0. "TZ87 compaction problems in V2.6" by MUNICH::SCHASCHL () Thu Feb 27 1997 09:18

Hi,

I have a questions about a TZ87 tape unit connected to a KZPAA on an
Alphaserver 1000 system running OpenVMS V6.2 and SLS V2.6.

If a customer starts a backup/image with /media=compaction he has no
problems writing data in compaction mode to this tape but if he starts
a SLS Backup he has problems with this tape drive staying in compaction
mode. 
The customer initialized the tape with /media=compaction and pushed the
buttons on the front panel, both doesn't work.

Defining the DENSITY String in the SBK-File with COMP causes Backup to
cancel with the following error message.

%BACKUP-F-INVQUAVAL, value 'COMP' invalid for /DENSITY qualifier 



The only TAPESTART.COM triplets are:

       $ MTYPE_1  := TZ87                                                    
       $ DENS_1   := COMP                                                     
       $ DRIVES_1 := ALPHA2$MKA600:

SBK-File:

.
.
.
$ QUALIFIERS :== /SINCE=BACKUP/IGNORE=INTER/MEDIA=COMPACTION
$ MEDIA_TYPE :== TZ87
$ DENSITY :== ""      
$ DRIVE_TYPE :== ALPHA2$MKA600:
.
.
.


Thanks in advance and regards,

                                       Christian

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2204.1	<can anybody help me ?>	MUNICH::SCHASCHL		`Tue Mar 04 1997 09:13`	1

2204.2		COOKIE::MCCLELLAND	Marty, SLS/MDMS Engineering	`Mon Apr 07 1997 13:14`	7
	This should work if you remove /MEDIA=COMPACTION from the QUALIFIERS parameter and set DENSITY :== COMP. If it fails, please provide extract from the *SBK.LOG showing several commands before and after the error message. Marty
2204.3	Now it works	MUNICH::SCHASCHL		`Fri Apr 18 1997 04:39`	23
	Hello Marty, thanks for your reply. I have mentioned in .0 > Defining the DENSITY String in the SBK-File with COMP causes Backup to > cancel with the following error message. > %BACKUP-F-INVQUAVAL, value 'COMP' invalid for /DENSITY qualifier I have asked the customer if he has changed anything else in his SBK-Files but the answer of customers is always the same. - NO - A look in his SBK-File and I saw the wrong definition of DENSITY. DENSITY == COMP Why the customer has deleted the colon in this definition - I don't know. Christian