Hi,

At 10:12 06.12.99 -0000, Sharp, Chris wrote:
>Hello all,
>        We have a Magstar 3575 tape lib, it is mainly taken up with the main
>storage pool, but the library is full and I want to be able to access tapes
>that are not physically in the tape pool without loading them in to the
>library ( not taking up one of the 60 slots). Is there any way to get the
>system to load a tape from the entry exit port, read it and then eject it to
>the entry exit again , rather than loading it into the library. Sorry if
>this is not very coherent, but it has been a very long weekend.

You can use the checkin libvolume command with the swap=yes option.
ADSM will eject the least frequently mounted volume to make room for
the needed one.

Regards,

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