Try inserting a scratch tape into dev 24 and after you get the message on
the console that the tape was acknowledged perform a series of 'abortio 24'
until the message 'No I/O to abort' is received.

This has worked on my system (using Roadrunner).

Regards
Paul Christidis




> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a console message out there that is insisting that I mount a tape
> on device 24.  The problem is that the Orbit backup job was aborted by a
> night operator and does not exist on the system anymore.  How do I remove
> this message without doing a reboot?  I have tried to do a reply to the
> PIN # (which is zero).  The system tells me that the process number is
not
> within a valid range.  I also tried an abortio on the device...no luck.
> Here is the console message and a showdev listing...
>
> SYS:RECALL
> THE FOLLOWING REPLIES ARE PENDING:
> 11:01/#J2759/0/Mount tape volume 2 of volumeset unnamed on dev 24
>
>
> SYS:showdev 24
>  LDEV     AVAIL         OWNERSHIP         VOLID         DEN   ASSOCIATION
>
>    24     AVAIL
>
> SYS:SHOWJOB #J2759
>  NO SUCH JOB(S)
> JOBFENCE= 4; JLIMIT= 7; SLIMIT= 256
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jennifer Ramaglia
> Systems Support Specialist
> QualChoice
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