Don't know if this applies to your situation, but I remember once a problem
where BACKUP DB stole tapes from scratch when the tapes weren't labelled
(library read external barcode labels during checkin.)

From: Ugo Pistacchio <USP AT NRC DOT GOV>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Weird scratch tape activity
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:45:02 -0400

We are running ADSM 3.1 on an NT box with a STK 9740 library.  We have been
running out of scratch tapes at an alarming rate.  When I free up some
scratch tapes, if i continually run Q LIBV, I see the scratch tapes being
used up almost immediately.  ADSM will turn one scratch tape into a
Database tape and then the next into a Data tape and continue doing so
until all the scratch tapes are used up;about 25 in an hour.  All this
happening before my eyes with no processes running.

Any ideas?

Thanx to all the ADSM'ers!

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