Not necessarily...  if there are FILLING tapes in the pool being reclaimed,
they will be used before calling for a scratch.

My concerns have been just the opposite... we've found that it is very
painful if you run out of scratch tapes!

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs





> It's normal to have all your tapes about 50% used. If you try to reclaim
a
> tape that is mostly full, reclamation will probably require a new scratch
> tape, so even though it frees up THIS tape, you still have no net gain in
> scratch tapes.

        I'm not too terribly concerned about freeing scratch tapes as much
as
having a consistent rotation.