Recovering From the Allocate Error State

As shown in Table 12-5, an allocatable device is in an error state if its ancillary file is owned by user bin and group bin with a device special file mode of 0100 and label of ADMIN_HIGH. One way that a device can be put into an allocate error state is by the device_clean(1M) scripts. A device-clean script puts a device into the allocate error state during deallocation until the user responds to prompts from the script and removable media is ejected. A role with the Reclaim or Revoke authorization can use the Device Allocaiton Manager to reclaim devices from the error state.