On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 07:24:44 -0500, Jim Lane <JLane AT TORONTOHYDRO DOT COM> 
wrote:

>never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
>ignorance.
>I never intended this to be either a debate or a saga.

Ignorance which leads one to pose a sensible question is commendable.
However ignorance which causes incorrect facts to be propagated is inexcusable.

 I genuinely
>didn't,
>and still don't, understand why my Networker server is behaving the way
>it
>does.
Hmm, neither do I at this stage.

> I have only one pool, Default. I have tapes listed as recyclable
>but
>Networker was pausing with a "waiting for writeable volume" message.
>if I relabelled the tape to the same pool and volume serial number then
>
>remounted it all would be well. now that I've turned auto media
>management
>on it seems to be doing the same thing automatically for me. does this
>make sense? is this what the product is supposed to do?

Well, no, it's not. It should not need auto media management to do this.
Assuming that this is a jukebox device (not standalone) and that the tape is
recyclable and not set to manual recycle, it should recycle into the same
pool to satisfy a mount request when necessary. A "suggest mounting" or
"suggest relabelling" message should appear after a short time, then it
should get up and do it. It does look like you have a problem, and auto
media management is not the logical solution. Strange that it seemed to do
the trick.

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