Well, it's empty because all the data has expired or been reclaimed.
But, it is still marked as "private" in the library, and still has a
definition in your storage pool inventory.
So, something is keeping ADSM from deleting the storage pool definition,
which would automatically put the volume back in scratch status.

Some things I can think of:


1) Are you using DRM?  If so, do Q DRMEDIA volser.  If the tape still has a
status of VAULTRETRIEVE or COURIERRETRIEVE, you must do a MOVE DRMEDIA to
get the tape deleted from the DRM inventory, then ADSM will delete the
stgpool entry.

2) Is the tape marked OFFSITE?

3) Was the tape created originally with the DEFINE VOLUME command, rather
than being grabbed by ADSM as a SCRATCH volume?  To check, display the
properties of the volume.  If the properties says SCRATCH YES, then it came
from the scratch pool.

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Bull [SMTP:tomb AT NSMC.PARTNERS DOT ORG]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 4:26 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      volume status
>
> hi everyone - please excuse me, i'm new to ADSM. i have an NT4.0  server
> (sp3) running ADSM v3.1 with a
> Scalar ADIC218 DLT library. runs seemlessly for the most part. a q vol
> shows one of my volumes status
> has changed to "empty" - attempts to check it in to the library fail with
> the following:
>
> ANR8443E  : Volume BK0011 in library ADIC218 cannot be assigned a status
> of SCRATCH.
>
> how can i check this tape in to the library, and how did it's status
> change to "empty"?
>
> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom