Dave

You are specifying a status of '0' when looking at the vmquery output the
status is '1'.   I think 

> # vmquery -deassignbyid ID0006 3 1

will fix things.

-Jon


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David Bosen wrote:

> I have several NBDB tapes that I need to delete and I cannot do it.
> 
> Here is what I get when I run various commands:
> 
> # vmquery -deassignbyid ID0006 3 0
> Could not deassign media ID ID0006: volume is already assigned (93)
> 
> # bpmedialist -mlist -ev ID0006
> requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume 
> database
> requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume 
> database
> requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume 
> database
> 
> # vmquery -m ID0006
> 
> ================================================================================
> media ID:              ID0006
> media type:            DLT cartridge tape (11)
> barcode:               ID0006
> description:           onsit|244|S38|20020310
> volume pool:           NBDB_Duplicate (3)
> robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number:          0
> robot slot:            88
> robot host:            agasc47u
> volume group:          00_000_TLD
> created:               Wed Jul 25 15:48:28 2001
> assigned:              Fri Feb 22 08:58:31 2002
> last mounted:          Fri Feb 22 09:08:07 2002
> first mount:           Wed Aug 01 11:03:17 2001
> expiration date:       Thu Mar 20 13:36:24 2003
> number of mounts:      10
> max mounts allowed:    ---
> status:                0x1
> ================================================================================
> 
> I get the same results for tapes ID0007, ID0008 and ID0010. They are all 
> supposed to be up for
> reuse this week, but they will not expire/release for reuse.
> 
> What can I do to get rid of them?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave Bosen
>