a) Use the ADSM SCSI drivers.

b) The concept of volumes changes with a MANUAL library, as you seem
    to know.  It looks like you went ahead and did a DEFINE VOLUME
    on this tape.   With this MANUAL LIBRARY expect to receive
    these MOUNT REQUESTS, if you do not see the tape when doing
    a QUERY MOUNT, then ADSM does not recognize the tape as
    MOUNTed even though its in the drive.  To fix run...

   QUERY REQUEST
    REPLY <the three digit number you see>

   If you have problems with this, go ahead an attempt the SCRATCH volume
   option which can work with MANUAL libraries.  Essentially run
   your dsmlabel or LABEL LIBVOL, set MAXSCRATCH above 0, and
   let the STGPOOL worry about DEFINING VOLUMES.  You'll still
   be prompted ot mount volumes, but it should work.

c) Another thing in general you may need to keep a watch on is MOUNT
RETENTION
   in your DEVCLASS.  After a period of time, an idle tape can DISMOUNT.

ADSML

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