My thoughts too!
HOW can that happen in a VTL?  Unless there is real physical damage?
I'd sure check the back end for any warning lights/alerts/logs.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Steven Langdale
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:00 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL label unreadable, I'm stuck.

The 1st thing I'd do is get a call logged with your vtl vendor.  You need to 
find out if this corruption is more widespread.
On 22 Apr 2014 16:13, "Loon, EJ van (SPLXM) - KLM" <Eric-van.Loon AT klm DOT 
com>
wrote:

> Hi TSM-ers!
> In one of my virtual libraries I found 4 tapes which were unavailable. 
> I updated them to read-only and issued a move data for them. This 
> failed due to the following error:
>
> 04/22/2014 14:39:13 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 020408 
> in drive TVTL_TLSP2_1_DR38
>
> This looks like an unlabeled tape, but it's a private tape used in a 
> primary storage pool! So I tried relabeling it with overwrite=yes:
>
> 04/22/2014 14:59:11 ANR8816E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume 020408 in library
> TVTL_TLSP2_1 cannot be labeled because it is currently defined in a 
> storage pool or in the volume history file.
>
> Now what... I can't read the data on the tape since the label is 
> corrupt and I can't relabel it because there is data on it!
> Thank you very much for your suggestions in advance!
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> AF/KLM Storage Engineering
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