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
Hi Dave,
Actually, I can only see advantages to checking the tapes in as they
arrive:
1) The tapes are less likely to be lost or suffer environmental damage
2) At the rate you are using tapes, you won't have to check in any new
tapes for quite a while.
3) You won't have to worry about the
>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:03:35 -0500, Dave Zarnoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> But, is there any disadvantages to have so many scratch tapes available
> in the silo?
If you've got the slots to spare, fill 'em up. Keep "enough" free for
unforseen events (maybe 10-20 slots?) but no reason to do
