On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Basic questions I have:
> -Does each tape with ADSM has to be labeled whether it will be used
> as a scratch tape or not?

Yes. You have to label each tape first. Then you have to check the
volume into a library using
   checkin libvolume libraryname volname type=private/scratch
Here you decide whether it should be a scratch volume or not.
After that, you define your storage pools and decide how many
scratch volumes they should use (maxscratch option).

> -If I have a tape and ADSM loads it as a scratch tape how will ADSM
> now not to start from the beggining the next time?

After loading a scratch volume the volume gets the private status
and belongs to the storage pool it was chosen from. If you delete
the volume using "delete volume volname discarddata=yes" the
volume becomes a scratch volume again and can be used by any other
storage pool.
Hope this helps,

Regards,

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