I experimented with this several years ago.
The trick seemed to be to ensure that the location was set to the
name of
the tape library before you do the inventory.
It still insists on "using a tape drive" (so it picks a free drive, and
ejects any mounted tape), but it does not load the tape and read its
label.
So, when inserting tapes, I do the sequence
mmlocate -n -u <volume name> <library name>
nsrjb -j <library name> -d -S <slot>
nsrjb -j <library name> -I -S <slot>
On 30/11/2005, at 10:35 PM, Vernon Harris wrote:
I have barcode labels on my tapes. It appears that
when an inventory is run, all tapes are loaded into
drives and checked for labels. Is this the default
behavior and if not, how can you prevent this from occuring?
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