STAM@HROEUR51.BITNET (AC Stam EUR/ERC) (05/18/88)
Anyone experienced problems trying to mount a tape unit which had been dismounted by a process while a subprocess was backupping ? ARJAN@HROEUR51.BITNET
carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) (05/22/88)
> Anyone experienced problems trying to mount a tape unit which had been > dismounted by a process while a subprocess was backupping ? Your problem is probably actually an "ALLOCATE-MOUNT-DISMOUNT-MOUNT" problem. The sequence ALLOCATE-MOUNT-DISMOUNT from a subprocess results in the device being allocated to the top-level process, and not the subprocess. Thus the device is "not available for mounting" when you try to mount it again. The only workarounds I know of are: 1) Do the work from a top-level process; or 2) Don't explicitly allocate the device.