DLT DRIVE showing online allocation

[dudharkar chandra]

VMS 7.3-2 having DLT drive issue.There was backup retoration was going on and it was giving restoration problem at one file and stuck there henc operation terminated by diconnection session. dismount command run to dismounty DLT, DLT tape removed after that it is showing online Allocation status. I have done mc syman> io autoconfigure /select=mke400
for DLT device to load its driver. But issue not solved. I pushpull the DLT drive and check but not solved. Only system reboot is require for this to get DLT drive status to online ? Any other option.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

You can try dismount/abort.

Wim

[Jan van den Ende]

dudharkar chandra,

if the PROCESS that had the drive allocated is gone, then the drive release AST cannot be delivered, so the MKE400 will not come free.

Your options now:
a. Reboot. Very un-VMS-like.
b. Physically move the drive to another controller. For instance, if slot 4 on the "D" controller is still available, move it there.
c. If the "E" controller still has a slot available, set the unit ID of the drive to that number.
Both b. & c. require a $ mcr sysman io auto,
to be able to see new ident for the drive.
That leaves MKE400 as an allocated, virtual device, but the drive is usable again, using the new name.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[dudharkar chandra]

thanks u all...After waiting for 4hrs and then I found online allocation disappeared and MKE400 status comes to online.