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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: another INSTALLED IMAGE question
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Date: 10 May 88 22:21:38 GMT
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In article <3387@drivax.UUCP> braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral) writes:
>We are runnning 2 11/780s in a clustered environment.  Twice in as many months
>we have had to take one of the HSC controlled drives down for maintenance and
>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?
>
>Thanx, kral 	

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.)
If a process has a file open for write, then I'm not certain stopping that
process will work.  I've had similar problems at times.

michael j zehr