Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!tada From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: another INSTALLED IMAGE question Message-ID: <5241@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 May 88 22:21:38 GMT References: <3387@drivax.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 15 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