Try:
vmoprcmd -reset <drv index nr> -h <device host>

Regards,

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Weber, Philip" <Philip.Weber AT egg DOT com>
Cc: "'veritas-bu'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Ejecting tapes via Robtest on a split robot


> 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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