Right.  We require pre-labelled to prevent overwriting
of tapes which don't belong to ADSM and to track them
once ADSM has used them ( or to re-use them when they become
empty ).

Barry Fruchtman
ADSM Development

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> I have implemented ADSM, and just recently started operations with
> tapes. I am confused about scratch tapes.
>
> Basic questions I have:
> -Does each tape with ADSM has to be labeled whether it will be used
> as a scratch tape or not?
> -If I have a tape and ADSM loads it as a scratch tape how will ADSM
> now not to start from the beggining the next time?
>
> This is what I understand so far. If a tape is labeled, but one has
> not created storage pool for it, ADSM will mount it and use it as a
> scratch tape (if the library has scratch volumes enabled). Once there
> are no more files needed from that tape ADSM will drop the volume and
> it can be re-used from "scratch" again. Is this the case? I have
> tried reading the documentation, but I am still not clear.
>