On Fri, 2 May 2003, George Sinclair wrote:

>I guess the one thing, though, that bothers me about the '-R' option is
>that it seems silly to pull a tape in and then find out that it's not
>eligible for recycling and then eject it and continue on when you could
>simply avoid it to begin with by obtaining a list of all the tapes that
>eligible ahead of time. Maybe a database query could quickly retrieve
>that info, and an nsrjb command could be run to determine which of those
>tapes is currently in the library and then you could re-label only
>those, so the '-R' option is kind of moot at that point, but it could be
>used as an additional precaution just in case, for some reason, a
>non-eligible tape was accidentally loaded.

The mminfo utility certainly can report on which tapes are marked as
recylced. I believe recycled tapes are indicated with "E"  in the status
field when doing a basic query, but I would have to check the docs to
confirm that, which I do not have time right now to do.

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