all tapes write protected

[kodiakid]

linux, arcserve 11.5, hooked up to L700. all tapes show up as write protected. they are not physically write protected. they are not new tapes they were used by Netbackkup before i believe.

i can load tapes then kill CA services and do a mt -f /dev/st* erase. then i reinventory the tape and it comes back as blank media. and i can do whatever i want. problem is i have 678 tapes. there must be a better way to do this.

if not i'm just going to use the bulk tape eraser.

 

[davidmichel]

$BAB-Home/config/camediad.cfg
MMO-BYPASS-UNKNOWN-ERR = 0
change it to 1
cstop
cstart

 

[kodiakid]

i did this and all the tapes are still write protected.

 

[kodiakid]

there must be some way to get brightstor to ignore the write protection. the tapes are not physically write protected. they were in use on an irix system before. i need to get the headers blown away off those tapes. pleas help!