Clint -

Did you label and checkin or just checkin?

Checking in with the barcode command does not label the media.

I would use the label command with the checkin if you haven't already:

LABEL LIBVOLUME "LIBRARYNAME" SEARCH=YES LABELSOURCE=BARCODE CHECKIN=SCRATCH
OVERWRITE=YES


Good luck!

CR

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Cris Robinson
Sr. Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management / ADSM
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Clint Placette [SMTP:Clint.Placette AT FDC-INVEST DOT COM]
        Sent:   Friday, September 24, 1999 1:41 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        STK9740

        Hello,

        I just brought a secondy Library on line.  A stk 9740 with 9840
        drives.  I did an audit of the lib and all 170 volumes came up.  I
        then issued a CHEKIN LIBV TEKWOLF VOLRANGE=000000,000169
STAT=SCRATCH
        CHECKLABEL=BARCODE SEARCH=YES.  This work made all volume into
        scratches.

        Here is where it gets hairy.  I decided to due a database back to
the
        new LIB.  What I got was the LIB went to each volume marking each
        volume to private (170).  It was trying to due a db backup but it
kept
        getting this error ANR8355E I/O error reading label fo volume ### in
        drive  ##.

        Well I decide to call IBM they wanted me to audit the LIB again.
This
        proved fruital because after the audit it blew away all the volumes.
        I bet you can't guess what I am doing right now.  Yes that's right I
        am auditing the LIB again.

        Can anybody help me on this.

        AIX 4.2.1
        ADSM 3.2.1.40