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- From: sysop@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu (Shawn A. Clifford)
- Subject: Re: Allocated drive problem
- Message-ID: <6NOV199211284271@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu>
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- Organization: Nuclear Engineering Sciences - Univ. of Florida
- References: <01GQO9SDSO428Y6MQT@AdminA.RFERL.Org> <1992Nov5.150742.15512@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 11:28 EST
- Lines: 58
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- In article <1992Nov5.150742.15512@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes...
- >In article <01GQO9SDSO428Y6MQT@AdminA.RFERL.Org>, SMITHM@AdminA.RFERL.ORG writes:
- >|
- >|>
- >|> 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.
- >|>
- >|>
- >|>
- >|>
- >|> ################################
- >|>Michael J Smith X400 : c=US;ad=MCI;pd=RFERL;s=SMITH;g=MICHAEL
- >|>Systems Programmer INTERNET : SMITHM@RFERL.ORG
- >|>RFE/RL inc Phone : 089 210 23723
- >|>Munich Fax : 089 2102 3752
- >|>Germany
- >|>
- >|>
- >
- >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).
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Dwight D. Moore
- >Geosciences Computing Network
- >University of Oklahoma
- >
- >dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (129.15.40.10)
- >These opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of OU or the GCN.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Have you tried DISMOUNT/ABORT? I get the same situation all the time because
- I will run BACKUP from a child process or batch. DISMOUNT/ABORT drops the
- TK50 for me.
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