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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
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>> >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