I've noticed this sort of thing too.  We have 2 tape drives, so I would
expect only 2 tapes to be in filling status yet we have 7.  All of them are
read/write.

On another note, I had a weird experience with reclamation yesterday.  Two
tapes were processed by reclamation.  The contents of the first tape
(status=full) was moved to a second tape.  The second tape then was
reclaimed (it's status was still filling) and its contents moved to a third.
 Why on earth would ADSM move the data from tape 1 to tape 2, only to move
it all again to tape 3?  I think it goes back to no logic in selecting the
order of the tapes to be reclaimed.  If ADSM had looked at all the tapes
that would be processed, it wouldn't have handled it this way.   I hope I
never get to the point where I have several tapes in filling status that
also are eligible for reclamation.  It would take forever to move the data
from tape to tape to tape ...

Tina Hilton
Thomson Consumer Electronics
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From: Julie Xu
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: why two tape are filling
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 6:34PM


Normaly, we have only one tape to be filled at a time. But today, I
found there are two tapes' status is filling. what is the cause?

We have adsm server on sp2/aix 3.4 and a 3590 drive. the message is:
adsm> q vol
B010    BACKUPTAPE   3590TAPE  9,169.4 77.5    Full
B011    BACKUPTAPE   3590TAPE  9,072.7 81.8    Full
B012    BACKUPTAPE   3590TAPE 10,000.0 22.9    Filling
B013    BACKUPTAPE   3590TAPE 10,000.0 16.4    Filling
B014    BACKUPTAPE   3590TAPE      0.0  0.0    Empty

Any comments will be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Julie Xu
email: j.xu AT uws.edu DOT au