I thought it always worked this way.  At one time I was going to put in a
request to have two mount retention times.  One for when there are no
pending request for a drive and the other for when there are pending
request.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Joe Faracchio wrote:

> I recently upgraded from 3.1.2.20 to 3.7.2.0
> and notice a very annoying behaviour.
>
> The system keeps an idle tape mounted for the full retention period
> specified despite the pending mounts that are waiting.
>
> when / where will this be fixed???
>
> thanks ... joe.f.
>
> Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
>