Depending on your version NBU handles scratch tapes differently. I think 
from NBU 4.5 FP3 it moves tapes that become empty to the SCRATCH pool 
(wouldn't live without this myself)
If you for some reason have write protected tapes that now have been moved 
to the SCRATCH pool I would expect to see this.

I have never myself had the situation of using write protected tapes under 
NBU, so I can't say that I am 100% sure.

You say that you always use new tapes. What do you do with the old ones?

/johnny

At 15:24 01-08-2003 +1000, Terry Newnham wrote:

>Hi
>
>The netbackup/robot arrangement normally runs like a bomb; except for
>one thing: The robot is reporting that about half-a-dozen tapes are
>write-protected and is consequently refusing to use them. The tapes are
>not write protected, but the robot/software insists that they are.
>
>We normally put in brand new tapes but it is possible that some were
>recycled from a different application. Could this be causing this stange
>effect ?
>
>Terry
>
>
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