Don't know if this applies to your situation, but I remember once a problem
where BACKUP DB stole tapes from scratch when the tapes weren't labelled
(library read external barcode labels during checkin.)
>From: Ugo Pistacchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Weird scratch tape activity
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:45:02 -0400
>
>We are running ADSM 3.1 on an NT box with a STK 9740 library. We have been
>running out of scratch tapes at an alarming rate. When I free up some
>scratch tapes, if i continually run Q LIBV, I see the scratch tapes being
>used up almost immediately. ADSM will turn one scratch tape into a
>Database tape and then the next into a Data tape and continue doing so
>until all the scratch tapes are used up;about 25 in an hour. All this
>happening before my eyes with no processes running.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanx to all the ADSM'ers!
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