Ok, I'll show my ignorance.

Would the setting of MAXSCRATCH being to low on your default tape pool have
any effect?

-----Original Message-----
From: fred johanson [mailto:fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:13 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Empty tapes not returning to scratch


A new variation on an old problem.

I've moved a lot of media to the shelf for space reasons.  A bonus to using
move as opposed to checkout is that when tapes hit empty on the shelf, they
do not disappear from the storagepool.  I restored 4 such to the tape robot
on Friday, checked them into the Library Manager, and updated them to
"Mountable in Library", while Pending Reuse is set to 0.  And there they
sit, and nothing will change the status back to scratch.  I've tried "Move
Data", "Del vol", "Aud vol", and changing their access to
destroyed.  Nothing seems to work.



Fred Johanson
ITSM Administrator
University of Chicago
773-702-8464