>But isn't that a bit dangerous ... for the requestor to be issuing tape
>commands and/or CCWs to the attached tape drive while RMSMASTR is "doing
>its thing" mounting the tape for the requestor?
>

I would expect if a mount command has been requested to RMS, the
requestor would not be doing anything to the drive until a DE has
occurred indicating a tape was mounted.
At that point, RMS should have detached the drive


Best Regards,
Les Geer
IBM z/VM and Linux Development

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