If the tape is pending, it still belongs to a storage pool and needs to be
checked in
as scratch. If the tape was a scratch to begin with, it will be changed to
scratch
when the pending period ends.

On Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:01 AM, Robert Cross
[SMTP:Robert.Cross AT SCOTTISH-NEWCASTLE.CO DOT UK] wrote:
> Quick question from an ADSM server admin novice.
>
> I'm trying to checkin 30 tapes that have just come back from off-site storage
> into
> a 3494. When I use the CHECKIN LIBVOL command (status=scratch) on them,
> 12 went in no problem, but the other 18 refused.
>
> Do these need to be status=private, or is there some way I can find out why
> it
> should be that ADSM refuses to check them in?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Cross.
>
>
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