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?