Is it OK to do this?  I had a feeling it would "confuse" NetBackup or the
robot to do this, or that it would cause some kind of SCSI reserve problem
on the drive.  Not that I've tested it out or researched this, but
potentially I could have the same problem with split robot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT worman DOT org] 
Sent: 04 November 2004 14:52
To: Marx, Keath
Cc: veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Ejecting tapes via Robtest on a split robot


are these hosts running Unix?

if so, then you can request an unload via the 'mt' command
run on a host that is connected to the tape drive in question,
like so:

  # mt -f /dev/rmt/X offline
  (where X is some number that represents the tape drive,
  as reported by 'tpconfig -d')

see also http://support.veritas.com/docs/188520

HTH
rob


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:24:20AM -0500 or thereabouts, Marx, Keath wrote:
>    I am trying to unload some tapes from a robot that has 2 drives
connected
>    to 1 host and 2 drives on another.  Robtest on the server that controls
>    the robot shows the 4 drives but I cannot issue an unload command to
>    drives 3 and 4.  If I run robtest on the machine with those 2 drives it
>    tells me there is no locally controlled robot.  How can I issue the
unload
>    command to those drives?
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