You can use a utility from www.sysinternals.com called process explorer.  
Search for nsrmmd.exe and there will be a number of them, find the one 
referencing the hung device in question and kill it.  The process will restart 
clean.

There's more information in the archives.

Regards,

Carter
Ext. 5192
cfowler AT london DOT ca
 

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From: mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU 
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:26 PM
To: mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU; NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Hung "saving to pool" process

Sometimes, when a client/backup appears to be hung and it's stopping the
group from completing, when I manually stop the group, the individual
client backup doesn't finish.  I still see a

grads:C:\ saving to pool 'Daily' (Daily.018) 102 MB

in the Session window of the nwadmin program, and the drive containing
Daily.018 is still stuck in the writing stage -- although nothing
appears to be happening.  How do I get rid of this safely?  (In the past
I've shutdown the server and restarted, but that seems extreme.)

I'm guessing I need to kill a specific nsrmmd process, but how can I
track which one is linked to the client/drive I need to release?  Is
there another way to do this?  Thanks,

Dave

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