The Vital Cartridge Records of the cartridge in the drive are lost or corrupted. This results in the inability of the drive to do fast locates to file positions on the cartridge, which causes the locate performance for read or append operations to become degraded.
The server continues the operation.
There are two methods to restore the VCR data. The first method uses the MOVE DATA command to move the data off the tape and to return the tape to scratch or empty status. The VCR data is rebuilt when the empty tape is rewritten from the beginning-of-tape. The second method rebuilds the VCR by loading the tape and locating directly to the end-of-data. This is done by the server in normal use when new data is appended to the end of the tape. It can also be done independent of the server by loading the tape in an unused drive and using the tapeutil program. Select the tapeutil option "Space to End-of-Data".