/AUTOMATIC (default)
/NOAUTOMATIC
Determines whether MOUNT enables or disables automatic volume
switching and labeling for magnetic tape or ISO 9660 CD-ROM.
Magnetic Tape
If you have multiple magnetic tape drives allocated to a volume
set, the magnetic tape ancillary control process (MTACP) performs
the volume switch by sequentially selecting the next available
drive allocated to the volume set. The MTACP expects the next
reel of the volume set to be loaded on that drive.
If the MTACP is writing to the volume set, it creates a label and
initializes the magnetic tape with that label and the protections
established for the first magnetic tape of the volume set. If it
is reading from the volume set, the MTACP generates the label and
attempts to mount the next magnetic tape with that label. If the
drive has the wrong magnetic tape (or no magnetic tape) loaded,
the MTACP sends a message to the operator's console to prompt for
the correct magnetic tape.
The label generated by the MTACP fills the 6-character volume
identifier field. The first four characters of the field contain
the first four characters of the label specified in the MOUNT
command, padded with underscores when the label is not at least
four characters. The fifth and sixth characters contain the
relative volume number for this reel in the volume set.
If you specify /NOAUTOMATIC, the MTACP requires operator
intervention to switch to the next drive during end-of-tape
processing, and requires that the operator specify a label for
each new reel added to a volume set.
ISO 9660 CD-ROM
Under ISO 9660, not all volume-set members must be mounted to
perform I/O operations against that volume set. By default, if
I/O operations attempt to access an unmounted volume-set member,
an operator message is sent to all DISK CLASS operators for
system-mounted volume sets, or the owning process for privately
mounted volume sets. The message specifies the volume-set member
to mount to complete the I/O operation requested. If /NOAUTOMATIC
is specified, then an I/O operation to a nonmounted volume set
member completes with an error message SS$_DEVNOTMOUNT.
Example
The following command instructs MOUNT not to generate its own
label for the second volume, but to use the ones supplied with
the MOUNT command instead. If the second volume is not already
labeled, then the operator must use REPLY/INIT and supply the
second label.
$ MOUNT/NOAUTOMATIC MTA0: ABCD,EFGH