On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:30:17 PST Joseph A. Faracchio said:
>We find the compromise to just having collocation on to work well for us.
>
>We have collocation on but keep the number of tapes available to be
>roughly half to 1/3 of the users in the system.   So ADSM 'doubles up'
>the tapes putting 2 or sometimes 3 users on a tape.
>
>So we have collocation but with only 1/3 of the tapes needed and requested.
>
>...joe.f.

We do the same thing, out of necessity.  As you get into larger capacity
tape formats, this is the only way to go.  You can't afford to put just
one Mac user on a 10 or 20GB tape!