Fred,
Were these tapes originally scratch tapes?  Or are they assigned to the
storagepool?

Posting the output from the commands

        "q vol <tape_volser_here> f=d"
and
        "select * from volumes where volume_name='<tape_volser_here>'

would help us provide assistance.  Also, what sort of output/response
errors did you get when you attempted to "del vol" or "audit vol"?

Ted

At 03:21 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote:

Tried that.


At 02:54 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:

You "moved" them out. "Move" them back.
Magic.


Dale Jolliff
Sungard Midrange Storage Administration
Office Telephone: (856) 566-5022





fred johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
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08/02/2004 02:12 PM
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        Subject:        Empty tapes not returning to scratch


A new variation on an old problem.

I've moved a lot of media to the shelf for space reasons.  A bonus to
using
move as opposed to checkout is that when tapes hit empty on the shelf,
they
do not disappear from the storagepool.  I restored 4 such to the tape
robot
on Friday, checked them into the Library Manager, and updated them to
"Mountable in Library", while Pending Reuse is set to 0.  And there they
sit, and nothing will change the status back to scratch.  I've tried "Move
Data", "Del vol", "Aud vol", and changing their access to
destroyed.  Nothing seems to work.



Fred Johanson
ITSM Administrator
University of Chicago
773-702-8464

Fred Johanson
ITSM Administrator
University of Chicago
773-702-8464