I've seen it for years, I think it's one of those idiosyncrasies.  When it bothered me, I would re-mount a tape and do a listdir to nowhere.  When the tape is done the LDEV should show up as AVAIL with nothing following.

(It never seemed to happen on HP-IB drives, however.)

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

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> Can someone advise how to correct the following.
>  
> I just rebooted my system, and when it came back up, I am 
> having an issue where the DDS tape devices are showing as if 
> there is a tape mounted, even thought the tape is no longer mounted.
>  
>    93     AVAIL
>    91     AVAIL    (W)                    (Nolabel)     1600
>    94     AVAIL
>    92     AVAIL    (W)                    (Nolabel)     1600
>     7     AVAIL
>    15     AVAIL
>    16     AVAIL
>    17     AVAIL    (W)                    (Nolabel)     1600
>    18     AVAIL
> 
> Any suggestions how to fix this.  We are on an HP989/650 
> version 5.5 PP7.
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