Thank you! We are using lin_tape and udev so these /dev/lin_tape.... do exist. Thanks!
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harder, Pieter Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBMtape drivers and scsi tapes Hi Marcy, If you are using the lin_tape driver and udev you can use static naming by using /dev/lin_tape/by-id/<wwpn>-IBMtape. I am not quite sure about the old IBMtape driver, but if you are using that one it is about time to move to lin_tape anyway. Best regards, Pieter Harder [email protected] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 >We have 9 SCSI tape drives on a server. It seems that when the server >is rebooted, the actual drives show up at different /dev/IBMtape* (and >different in /proc/scsi/IBMtape ) >Is there a way we can make them stay put and stop jumping around? The >application folks need to know ( our sw, not TSM or anything like that). Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
