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Date:	Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:43:30 PST8
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Locked ZIP drive

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:07:37 PST8, Steven Levine wrote:
>>Presently running eComStation but this problem also occurred when using
>>Warp 4. SCSI ZIP drive will periodically display an error message: "The
>>drive or diskette is already being used or is locked by another
>>process." So far the only solution is to reboot. Does anyone have an
>>alternate?
>
>The first step is to track down which process has the drive locked. If
>you are running a recent version of Warp, psfiles will show you this.
>Also, Theseus will show you this and more.

Terrific; I never knew such a thing existed. I tried to calibrate
it by running Watchcat to get PID of SWBAR, then input to command line:

[C:\]psfiles 1d
pid Hdl SFN refs flags mode size hvpb attr name
001d 0000 004f003f 000000c3 00000042 00000000 0000 0000 \DEV\CON
001d 0001 004f003f 000000c3 00000042 00000000 0000 0000 \DEV\CON
001d 0002 004f003f 000000c3 00000042 00000000 0000 0000 \DEV\CON
001d 0004 00010010 000000c1 00000042 00000000 0000 0000 \DEV\KBD$
001d 0008 00400017 000000c0 00000042 00000000 0000 0000 \DEV\OEMHLP$

Questions:

1-Where is psfiles documented?

2-What does the above mean?

3-How would one obtain the process ID for a drive or a locked file?

Jeffrey Race

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