On a semi-regular basis I'll get a device that is hung in an idle state, 
normally to clear it I run an 

nsrmm -H -f <device name> 

now I haven't gone looking to see whether it restarts the relevant nsrmmd 
process, but it generally fixes the problems I see 

Mat 


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Thierry FAIDHERBE
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 3:38 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Way to associate nsrnmmd PID to particular drive?

It is also easy on windows : using sysinternals processXP, check for 
handlers "Tape".
Then, depending of the name you are looking for, you can retrieve
the pid and kill it.

HTH

Th

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Francis Swasey
Sent: lundi 25 octobre 2010 20:30
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Way to associate nsrnmmd PID to particular drive?

I run on unix and there isn't even a really easy way there to tell which
nsrmmd is tying up a
drive.

In the situation you describe, I'd be looking for an alert that some
drive/volume was needed
for reading... and then hope you can figure out which stage/clone/backup is
calling for that
and terminate that process on the server to clear the idle write tape (yes,
NetWorker in my
observation gets the write target ready and then checks if the read source
is available).

Frank

On 10/25/10 2:19 PM, Morton, Jeffrey wrote:
> On Windows 2003, is there an easy way to determine which instance of
> nsrmmd is associated with a particular tape drive?
> 
> I am interested as I occasionally encounter drives hung in a 'ready for
> writing, idle' status and cannont clear this without completely
> recycling the server, which is not always possible. 

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