RE: HELP URGENT RMAN FAILS - FILE?????

Guys,

Running Oracle 8.1.7
RMAN with automated backups - no problem Wish to recover
recovered controlfile from backup then issued following:                                              

MAN> run {execute script alloc_all_tapes;
> restore database;
> recover database noredo;
> execute script rel_all_tapes;}
                                             

It failed with:

RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command                    
RMAN-03013: command type: restore                                    
RMAN-03002: failure during compilation of command                    
RMAN-03013: command type: IRESTORE                                   
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore                
RMAN-06023: no backup or copy of datafile 173 found to restore       
                                                                     

Yet, when I query the target database mounted and look for

  1* select file#,ts#,status,name from v$datafile       
SQL> i                                                  
  2  where file#=173;                                   
                                                        
no rows selected                                        
                                                        

MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!!! WHERE IS IT COMING FROM WITH FILE#173 - IF THE MOUNTED TARGET DATABASE DOESN'T LIST 173 FROM V$DATAFILE OR V$RECOVER_FILE!!!

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