Stop / Eject Tape In Progress

[cfowler]

Greetings,

I have a tape that has encountered a problem during a save. The tape is now stuck writing at 13KB/s. However, Legato has instructed that this tape has been marked as full, as Legato has encountered some sort of difficulty with the tape. The other two tape drives are currently in use and apparently, even though \\.\Tape1 is marked as full due to difficulties encountered, it still writes to the tape. I think perhaps it is hung. However, I am now limited to two tape drives for the remaining jobs and I also have to clone. Anyone know a way of ejecting that particular tape during a save? I have attempted to force it out from the command line, nsrjb -u -f \\.\Tape1 , but this does not work as the device is in use.

Thanks in advance,

CF

 

[SimonBenn]

Hi,

BIG WARNING HERE!!!! this is definetly anti-social behavior towards networker and it may well crash it / cause index corruption. YMMV

kill off the nsrmmd process that has the drive locked. On Solaris I do this using fuser -k /dev/rmt/Xcbn.

Regards,

Simon.

 

[cfowler]

Thanks SimonBenn,

Yes, I am well aware of the ramifications of one such action. However, I do not have the privilege of operating on a UNIX platform. I need to perform this from within an NT environment. If I open the task manager, there is no way to tell which process is the correct one to kill, for all intent and purpose here.

Any ideas for an NT environment?

 

[Guest_imported]

You have to install Microsofts NT Options kit which gives you the KILL command. I would imagine you could download it from the microsoft website (you would have to get the whole options kit) It comes with technet, if you have it.

 

[cfowler]

Yes, this is understood, however, this does not solve the problem of which task is related to which device. To kill the process will not ensue difficulty. How does one tell which process belongs to which device?

Thank you,


CF