Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization

[Tyree, David]

        I'm new with the ADSM system, so I hope I don't sound to dumb here!
I've been looking at the list for a couple of months and I've gotten a lot
of good information from it so far.
        Here we go, I run a select command every few days to check on the
number of reclaimable tapes we have in the system. When I get several tapes
with a PCT_RECLAIM above 70-80% I run the reclamation process. We do the
tape reclamation manually. Here is the select command we use:

        select volume_name,est_capacity_mb,pct_utilized,pct_reclaim from
volumes where stgpool_name='COPYPOOL' order by pct_reclaim desc


        The following is part of the result I get:

VOLUME_NAME                 EST_CAPACITY_MB     PCT_UTILIZED     PCT_RECLAIM

SG0113                              19317.5                        95.9
4.1
SG0117                              14658.0                        97.1
2.8
SG0007                                  0.0                          0.0
0.0<---------------??
SG0009                                  0.0                          0.0
0.0<---------------??
SG0014                                  0.0                          0.0
0.0<----------------??
SG0027                                  0.0                          0.0
0.0<----------------??
SG0030                              13671.7                        99.9
0.0
SG0046                                  0.0                          0.0
0.0<-----------------??
SG0047                              13533.1                      100.0
0.0
SG0075                                  0.0                           0.0
0.0<----------------??
SG0108                                  0.0
0.0                 0.0<----------------??
SG0124                                  0.0                           0.0
0.0<-----------------??
SG0133                                  0.0                           0.0
0.0<----------------??
SG0135                              11764.2                      100.0
0.0
SG0139                              10122.4                      100.0
0.0

        How can I have a tapes with 0 capacity and 0 utilization?
        We use 3590 tapes in  a 3494 library attached to an IBM Netfinity
server running NT 4 using ADSM version 3.7.3.
        Any ideas?


David Tyree
Microcomputer Specialist
South Georgia Medical Center
912.333.1155