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From: "Thomas_W._Taylor.WBST147"@XEROX.COM.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lost Magnetic Tape problem
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 18:24:45 EST
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A similar problem occurred on one of our systems on VMS 3.something, but
was supposed to be fixed in VMS 4.  I haven't run the test to see if it
is really fixed.  If I correctly remember the scenario it went something
like this:
A (SYSTEM) user with a high default priority (9 if I recall corectly)
logged off the system while the tape was still mounted and allocated.
The rundown of the process and deallocation of devices was out of sync
up so the device still thought it was owned by the high priority
process.  The work-around, of course, is not to have a high priority job
or to dismount and/or deallocate before logging off.  Is this the cause
of your problem?

			twt