Formatting a tape on AS/400 for Windows server

To use AS/400 tape drives on Windows server, you must format a tape that Windows server recognizes. To produce a non-labeled tape acceptable to Windows server, use the AS/400 Initialize tape (INZTAP) command. To format a tape, do the following:

• Put the tape you want to use in the AS/400 tape drive.
• At the AS/400 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.

Now Windows server can recognize the tape.