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.
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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
