What is the percise error message you get when you try to delete volume
<volumename> discard=yes ?

Keith Davey


On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Palmadesso Jack wrote:

> Kind of quiet today!
>
> I hope this is a simple one.  I have some volumes that were removed from a
> 3590 library and then went "unavailable" The volumes are now back in but are
> all empty.  A "q con" for each volume shows there is no data.  My problem is
> how do I make these volumes scratch again?  I cannot delete the volumes
> because I get volume cannot be deleted because volume state is mountable not
> in lib.  How do I make these scratch again?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Jack
>