Steve,    Hi!

Can't a 3494 have two distinct scratch pools defined for a system.
Right now I have x'0190' and x'0192' where x'0190' is 'owned-inuse'
and x'0192' is 'owned-scratch'  and 'FFFF' is insert, etc.

So why not an x'0193' for 'owned-scratch-alternate'?
I already have my onsite pool pointing to devc=3590 ... BUT ...
my offsite pool pointing to devc=3590C

a little trick I decided to use after having two 15-slot DLT boxes for a
year.   :-)

So I can just have onsite scratches pointing to "K" only tapes?

                 .... joe.f.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley