On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:10:19AM -0500, MIchael Leone wrote:
> NW 7.4 SP1, on Win2003
> 
> I have an HP 4 drive SDLT library. One of the drives is showing the status 
> as "Ready for writing, idle".

And it keeps that status for a long time?

> To me, this says the drive is idle, and I 
> can unmount the tape in it. I see no sessions that have this drive as the 
> target (I do have other manual clone jobs running, but the target is a 
> different tape drive). But I can't unmount the tape, and the error message 
> just says 'Tape4 is ready for writing'.
> 
> Any ideas why I can't unmount this (apparently not in use) tape?

I think that state is supposed to be a temporary one.  So right after a
job finishes, it can leave the tape drive "open", and ready for the next
job.  If there's no additional job in a few seconds, it should close the
device and return it to idle.

If you were on a Unix machine, I'd suggest using 'fuser' to find out
which nsrmmd had the drive open and kill it.  (The main daemon should
then respawn it.)  I have no idea how that
can be accomplished on a win32 system.

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