Ok, I'll show my ignorance. Would the setting of MAXSCRATCH being to low on your default tape pool have any effect?
-----Original Message----- From: fred johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
