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- From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Allocated drive problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.150742.15512@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 15:07:42 GMT
- References: <01GQO9SDSO428Y6MQT@AdminA.RFERL.Org>
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- In article <01GQO9SDSO428Y6MQT@AdminA.RFERL.Org>, SMITHM@AdminA.RFERL.ORG writes:
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- |> I have a problem with a TA90 drive. When I do a $SH DEV MUA10
- |> it shows the drive as : Mounted cached
- |> alloc foreign
- |>
- |> However, the owner process ID does not exist.
- |>
- |>
- |> I think the drive was alocated by a remote system (via RTF)
- |> when the remote system 'crashed', leaving the tape drive
- |> allocated by a non-existent process.
- |>
- |>
- |> Is there a way to "force" deallocation of the device without
- |> a reboot.
- |>
- |>
- |>thanks in advance,
- |>
- |>Michael.
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- |>Michael J Smith X400 : c=US;ad=MCI;pd=RFERL;s=SMITH;g=MICHAEL
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- We had a similar problem and there is a bug in the driver software.
- You might need to contact CSC for a "patch" (CSC Patch 245 is
- the one we recieved).
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- Dwight D. Moore
- Geosciences Computing Network
- University of Oklahoma
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