On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:01:17 +1200, Eidler, Dean
<dean.eidler AT AGRESEARCH.CO DOT NZ> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Before each nights backup we mark our tapes a Recyclable. This places a
>( R ) beside the tape name.
>You also get a ( R ) if you mark a tape as read only.
>
>Is this a bug? Should there be two different "marks" for the different
>operations????

Not at all. (R) means read only, not recyclable. Your tapes are marked as
read only because they cannot be written to unless they are recycled, at
which point they become appendable, hence not read only any longer.

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