Yes and know.  The label operation will grab a drive if it is available and
label the tapes.  Otherwise, it will fail with no devices available.  The
backup operation will use the other drive.  So start the label operation
before the backup operation if you really want to do the labeling.

A library cannot auto label a tape.
But:

label libvol [libname] search=yes labelsource=barcode volrange=[start],[end]

Will probably do what you are looking for.

select library_name, volume_name, status from libvolumes where
status='Scratch'

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: fenglimian [mailto:fenglimian AT 163 DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: help:label tape question


Hi all,
   I have a 3494 library with two dirve,the backup-archive server with ADSM
.When the library must label 200 tapes a time,at the same time ADSM must
have backup some date,can these two operations be doing at the same time?
   Another question is if I take the opertion:
ADSM>label libvol libname search=yes labelsouce=barcode
can library auto label all those tapes in the library?
   Last can you tell me what's the "scratch pool" ?
Thanks and regards
Feng