Add the following to your query command "q vol
access='reado,unavailable,destroyed'

 You probably haven't lost all your scratch tapes to these 'statuses' but
it's a little more complete than just 'readonly'. If you've got collocation
turned on then Dwight has probably hit it on the head...


> ----------
> From:         Cook, Dwight E[SMTP:cookde AT BP DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Friday, July 14, 2000 6:42 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Does my ADSM server have a tapeworm ??
>
> 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.
> >
>