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From: kvc@scgvaxd.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <544@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 21:43:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 21:43:31 1986
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References: <1215@brl-smoke.ARPA> <5027@alice.uUCp> <366@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> <143@simon_pc.UUCP>
Reply-To: kvc@scgvaxd.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
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In article <143@simon_pc.UUCP> simon@simon_pc.UUCP (Simon Shapiro) writes:
>Not really a horror but...
>
>Try this on VMS (yaaachk) version 4.1:
>
>1.  Mount RA60 pack
>2.  Open a file on the pack (keep opened)
>3.  Dismount the pack from another terminal
>4.  Try to mount another pack:  VMS will tell you "Cannot mount... 
>    ... drive already mounted..."
>5.  So you try to dismount, right?  Wrong! VMS says "no drive mounted..."
>6.  Call DEC service
>
>Depends on your attitude towards life as to how you classify the result of
>step 6.  Horror story or great joke.

Oh, come now... At least know something about what you're relating before
blithely repeating it.  VMS marks the disk for dismount but doesn't dismount
it 'cause it's got a file open on it.  Close the last file and it'll dismount
oh-so-gracefully.  SHOW DEVICE will tell you it's MARKED for dismount, but not
dismounted yet.  SHOW DEVICE/FILES will even tell you what files are open
so's you can close 'em.

I suppose you'd rather have it mung the filesystem 'cause fsck is so exciting
to run?

Of course, like everything else, VMS has got it's REAL horror stories!  Maybe
I'll relate a few of those for y'all sometime...

	/Kevin Carosso                scgvaxd!engvax!kvc