ADSM V2.1.5.13 on AIX 4.2, STK9710 tape library

I have just found a bunch of tapes in my library that are not defined in
STGPOOLS or VOLHISTORY, but are marked PRIVATE instead of SCRATCH.

We do not DEFINE any volumes to the STGPOOLS manually, all free tapes in the
library should be in SCRATCH status.
Library is dedicated to this one ADSM server.

Many of these tapes I cannot find at all in the activity log (they could
have been in this state a LONG time).
But some of them I can see had mount failures:

ANR9999D Mount error  xxxxxxx
ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed

The mount failures occurred at different times for different tapes, and were
all due to some explainable temporary problem with a drive or the tape
robot.

It looks as though when a mount fails for SCRATCH, ADSM is marking that tape
as PRIVATE, even though there is no message to that effect.
Can anybody confirm that is what really happens?

Thanks.
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
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