topic Re: OpenVMS Suspended Process Has Tape Unit Mounted in Operating System - OpenVMS

OpenVMS Suspended Process Has Tape Unit Mounted

Ian R Norris — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:28:32 GMT

One of our tape units had a hardware problem whilst being used by a batch job. The tape unit has been replaced but the batch job still had it mounted and allocated. I have deleted the batch job (by resetting the queue) but the process still has the unit mounted.
I have tried deleting the process but it is still left in a suspended state. Is there any way that I can delete the process and freeup the tape drive without rebooting the Alpha.

Re: OpenVMS Suspended Process Has Tape Unit Mounted

Ian Miller. — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:19:28 GMT

In what state is the process (as shown by SHOW SYSTEM)?

Re: OpenVMS Suspended Process Has Tape Unit Mounted

Jon Pinkley — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:21:51 GMT

Take a look at this thread for some possible solutions.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1109608