EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
03/05/2008 11:17:19 AM:

> 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.

Perhaps "Process Explorer" from SysInternals (now Microsoft) would show 
that.

As it happens, there was a job pending, but the GUI "seesions" tab does 
not show pending jobs. 

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