Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!mitch From: mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: another INSTALLED IMAGE question Message-ID: <4779@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 12 May 88 16:13:17 GMT References: <3387@drivax.UUCP> <5241@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <4652@blia.BLI.COM> Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth) Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Lines: 21 >> >the operator forgot to check for installed images on that drive before >> >dismounting them. The result is that the drive gets stuck in a mount/dismount >> >state. Is there anyone to remedy this short of a system reboot? >> If you go into instal and remove the images, that is supposed to work. >> (That's what i've done with the problem before and it worked okay.) >Last time I tried this, it didn't work. Install reported that the drive was >not mounted (at the same time, when trying to remount the drive, mount reported >that the drive was already mounted). Now this was under VMS 4.4 or 4.5 and on >a non-clustered, non-HSC disk. I would believe (and hope) that they have fixed >the problem in a later version. Probably not. I just got a disk stuck in this state last night on a LAVc'd VAXstation II running 4.7. I wanted to do a backup of it. When I tried to mount it, mount said it was 'already mounted.' When I tried to run backup, backup said it wasn't mounted. When I did a directory on it, directory worked. Whew. I rebooted. -Mitch Collinsworth mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu