Format a tape on i5/OS for use with integrated Windows servers

To use iSeries™ tape drives with integrated Windows servers, you must use a tape format that they recognize. To produce a non-labeled tape acceptable to Windows, use the i5/OS™ Initialize tape (INZTAP) command.

To format a tape, do the following steps:

• Put the tape you want to use in the iSeries tape drive.
• At the i5/OS command line, type:

  INZTAP DEV(tap01) NEWVOL(*NONE) NEWOWNID(*BLANK) VOL(*MOUNTED)
  CHECK(*NO) DENSITY(*CTGTYPE) CODE(*EBCDIC)

  where tap01 is the name of your tape drive. Press Enter.