If you have a space floor and an ideal location to safely store scratch
tapes coming back my preference would be to put them there, then  check in
scratch tapes as needed.

Disadvantages:
This does not happen frequently but  sometimes when a tape drive goes bad,
it would mount the tape and mark it unavailable every scratch tapes until
runs out.
Let's say there is a fire before you could offsite drm for that day.
Ejecting or getting  out 600 less  tapes sound good to me.

Sung Y. Lee

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/17/2006
11:03:35 AM:

> As a result of expiration, reclamation and removal of a large storage
pool.
> We are getting back approximately 100 scratch tapes/week
>
> We run an SL8500 library with 1600 cells of which 600 are free.
>
> Is there any difference whether I check these scratch tapes in as they
> arrive or place them in an inventory outside the silo.
>
> Right now we have 250 scratch tapes in the silo and use approximately
> 15/night.
>
> 60 more are coming in today.
>
> I can see that placing them in an inventory will require an extra step
> to keep the tapes in some sort of order.
>
> But, is there any disadvantages to have so many scratch tapes available
> in the silo?
>
> AdThanksvance!
>
>
>
> Dave Zarnoch
> Nationwide Provident
> zarnocd AT nationwideprovident DOT com