BLACK rather than BLUE just means that the tape cannot be overwritten because the data on the tape is still within the OPP for the media set
You can append to a BLACK tape as long as the APP has not expired
Remember that APP is figured from the time that the first data is written to the tape, and never changes until the tape is overwritten , but OPP is figured from the time that the last data is written to tape, and changes every time you append
Message Edited by Ken Putnam on
12-19-2007 11:14 AM