look into "filling" tapes... "q vol stg=xxxxx status=filling"  if
collocation is turned on there will be as many "filling" tapes as there are
nodes (if scratch tapes are available).   You might have been behind and
those 110 you put in are all now filling with only 0.1%.

Dwight

> ----------
> From:         Daniel Swan/TM[SMTP:Daniel.Swan AT TELUS DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:03 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Does my ADSM server have a tapeworm ??
>
> As mentioned previously, I'm an ADSM newbie taking over the ADSM of a
> regional company.
> There have been ongoing problems with our offsite-tape rotation.
>
> Since I've taken over, I've put in 110 tapes, and
> reduced the total ammount of data stored in the tape library by 1.5
> terabytes (deleting filespaces, expiring old sqlbacktrack).
>
> But somehow, I have NO scratch tapes.  In theory, I should have TONS.
>
> It has been suggested to me that many tapes are being marked as read-only.
> I have investigated this, and have
> found that only 4 tapes have been marked read-only (q vol access=reado).
>
> I have managed to get a few back by agressive reclamation processes, but
> of
> course, this is tying up all available drives,
> so can only be done for a short time during the day.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of where my tapes could be going?
>
> Any commands I can run to scare up more scratch tapes?
>
> Ps.  We have experts coming in to overhaul the system at the end of the
> month, but we're really
> scraping the bottom already...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dan.
>