Dear Sir,

I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.

Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
error messages are as below.

%DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
-RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
-SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....


I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me to solve the
above mentioned problems. Thank You.

In article <99bc26e2-f723-4965-ad87-9a22d8b79455@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, chewep@gmail.com writes:
>Dear Sir,
>
>I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
>was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
>MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.
>
If MKA400 was the name assigned to the old tapedrive make sure that the
replacement refurbished tape drive has its unit number set to 4.


>Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
>me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
>error messages are as below.
>
>%DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
>-RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
>-SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....
>

If you are deleting a directory tree with something like

DEL USER:[username...]*.*;* 

then you will get this error message because VMS will not delete directories
which aren't empty - however the command will have deleted files in those
directories. If you rerun the command multiple times it will then delete the
directories (The number of times you need to rerun it depends upon how many
levels of directories contained within directories you have).

David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University

>
>I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me to solve the
>above mentioned problems. Thank You.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:39 AM,  <chewep@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
> was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
> MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.

Did you reboot your system after changing the tape drive?
>
> Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
> me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
> error messages are as below.
>
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
> -RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
> -SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....


VMS will, normally, not delete a directory that is not empty.

To solve the above, make sure that the directory is empty before
trying to delete the directory file itself.

Please give us more details -- what version of VMS are you running?

Ken

chewep@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
> was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
> MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.
> 
> Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
> me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
> error messages are as below.
> 
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
> -RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
> -SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....
> 
> 
> I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me to solve the
> above mentioned problems. Thank You.

I'm assuming that the refurb'd tape drive allows you to set the SCSI ID. 
  The refurb tape drive is probably not set to SCSI ID 4.  Try to ask 
the seller how to set the SCSI ID, or post more details, including tape 
drive model number, and someone here might be able to help.

For the second problem, you need to keep repeating the DELETE command, 
to delete the directory files that are emptied by the "previous" delete 
command.  Delete does not delete directories "automatically".

You seem to be new to the "game".  Check out FAQ's and training 
resources for inexperienced folks.  Searching the archives of this 
newsgroup will bring many helpful pointers.  Google Groups maintains an 
extensive archive.

<chewep@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:99bc26e2-f723-4965-ad87-9a22d8b79455@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
> Dear Sir,
>
> I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
> was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
> MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.
>
> Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
> me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
> error messages are as below.
>
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
> -RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
> -SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....
>
> I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me to solve the
> above mentioned problems. Thank You.

As far as the second one is concerned, it is what VMS is telling you.  You 
can't delete a directory file if the directory isn't empty.  You need to 
delete the files within the directory first, then you can delete the 
directory.
-- 
David Biddulph 

chewep@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
> -RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
> -SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....
> 
> 
> I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me...

VMS can help you :

$ help /message DIRNOTEMPTY


  DIRNOTEMPTY,  directory file is not empty

   Facility:     SYSTEM, System Services

   Explanation:  The directory you attempted to delete cannot be
                 deleted because it contains files.

   User Action:  Be certain that you want to delete the directory.
                 Then, delete all the files in the directory first.
                 If the directory is corrupt, use the DCL command
                 SET FILE/NODIRECTORY to remove its status as a
                 directory.

chewep@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I just got a refurbished Tape drive to replace a  broken one. When I
> was doing backup for OpenVMS. The system prompted me something like
> MKA400 not ready or not mounted. MKA400 is the Tape drive.
> 
> Secondly, When I wanted to delete archived files. The system prompted
> me some errors, none of the files were deleted on the system. The
> error messages are as below.
> 
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDELETE , error deleting  USER:[.....]
> -RMS-E-MKD, ACP could not mark file for deletion ....
> -SYSYEM-F-DIRNOTEMPTY, directory file is not empty ....
> 
> I would very much appreciated if someone can instruct me to solve the
> above mentioned problems. Thank You.

As others have mentioned, you need to empty the directories first before
you can delete them.

This command will delete all the files in the tree without complaining
about non-empty directories:

$ DELETE [...]*.*;*/EXCLUDE=*.DIR

Then, you can try deleting the directories. Since it always starts from
the top of the tree, you really can't avoid the DIRNOTEMPTY errors
without doing some scripting.

I can post my DELTREE.COM file, if you want it, or Google this group for
DELTREE to find multiple options.

David J Dachtera
(formerly dba) DJE Systems