Dear Sir/Madam,

        it might be too simple, also because they have been talking about it
lately, but, did you check the "Delay Period for Volume Reuse" of your
Storage Pools?

Yours Faithfully

Mauro

> Strange happenings with tapes staying in libv with a status of private
and last
> use of data. Theses tapes however: belong to no storage pool  and have
no data o
> n them. We are at the latest release of Atape driver, ADSM 3.1.1.3
server on Aix
> .  The only way I can get them back to scratch is to assign them to a
dummy stor
> age pool and delete them. Has anyone seen this. We have a 3575 L32.