On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Orin Rehorst wrote:

Restore won't work when tape called is in overflow area. It's marked
unavailable. What am I missing please?

That would be the result of failing to respond to a Request in time,
such that it timed out and marked the volume Unavailable.  When using
overflow tape storage locations, solid procedures need to be in place
to assure the timely servicing of mount requests.  Change the volume
to Read/Write and give the procedures an observed test.

    Richard Sims