Actually we found out later the cartridge was damaged.  There are two little
plastic tabs on a 3590 cartridge, one of which was missing.  We are in the
process of trying to repair the cartridge, but this whole exercise has
brought up another question.
   This tape was a volume in a copy pool.  The volume was offsite
(access=offsite), became empty and was in the process of being checked in
when all this started.  The question is: How does one remove an empty,
offsite copy pool volume from ADSM?   "Update volume access=damaged" is
restricted to primary pool volumes.  "Delete volume" fails since status is
offsite.

> Date:    Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:26:28 -0400
> From:    Nick Cassimatis <nickpc AT US.IBM DOT COM>
> Subject: Re: Damaged Tape?
>
> I've had some of the same problems, and I had to re DSMLabel (or "LABEL
LIBVOL"
> in V3) the tapes.  They worked fine after that.
>
> Nick Cassimatis
> nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com
>
> If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, where will you
find
> the time to do it again?
>