/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