>
> Does setting the Auto Media Management to Yes do anything besides the
> labeling of blank volumes?

No.

> Does it determine whether the volume is blank by the barcode or the
> label on the tape?  I ask because if a volume is inserted and not
> Inventoried, is that considered a blank volume?

While a tape may be identified in the jukebox without loading it into a
drive (either due to a barcode inventory or due to explicitly giving a
volume name on a deposit), a label operation always verifies the on-tape
label first.  So a label operation will perform an "inventory" first in
a way.

Only if no networker label is detected is the tape considered "blank".
Note that the tape may actually be blank, been used for other purposes
(tar, dump, etc.), or it may just have a networker label written in a
density that cannot be read by the current drive (think DLT8000 wrote
the label and it's being verified in a DLT7000).

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