Skylar, Isn't it perhaps that TSM thinks that there is still data on the tape (q cont volumename) ? If you are absolutely sure there is no data on tape, delete the vol using the discarddata=yes parameter. That will return the tape to scratch.
Kind regards, RLL Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 24-01-2007 16:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] Library confusion Our library got confused about a month ago, and started reporting tapes being in the wrong slots. This caused a couple tapes to have labels that are inconsistent with their barcodes and are in use by other tapes. I audited the "real" volumes, and didn't find anything wrong, so I don't think anything actually got written to these other volumes. I'm trying to return them to the scratch state, but TSM won't let me because before it labels them it reads the on-tape label rather than the barcode (even though I give label libv "overwrite=yes" and "labelsource=barcode"), and the on-tape label is already in a storage pool. Is there any way to really force TSM to overwrite the on-tape labels? -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Systems Administrator, Genome Sciences Department -- University of Washington, School of Medicine
