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@VM.MARIST.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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
