Hi Fazil
If you are using the IBM tape drivers for Windows, you MUST use the
install.exe program that comes with the driver package. If you don't,
they won't get installed correctly, and your tape devices wouldn't be
enumerated correctly (or even be usable). At least, this has been my
experience.
Hope this helps.
tl
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:02 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tape Drivers & Windows
Hello,
>From time to time, due to hardware maintenance, server reboot, etc we
know
that windows has tendency to re-sequence the drive letters, new IBM tape
drivers address this shortcoming in a way to persistently bind the Tapes
and Device names.
Often after firmware update on Adic the windows Tape drivers needs to
get
installed again.
Question is, does it matter for Windows 2003 environment how the drivers
gets loaded for whatever reason, lets say that drivers are loaded
starting
with Tape 4, then 1 then 2 etc. Will Legato drive mapping change
following
subsequent reboot?
Vendor specifies to load the driver via setup program, however, would
loading the driver individually via Device manger be a better approach?
does it matter?
Environment in question has Neap VTL & Adic i2k Tape lib, over 60
Virtual
and 8 Physical devices, one master server two storage node etc.
All the drivers are FC attached on the SAN and we do use persistent
binding on FC cards.
Loading drivers through Device manager in sequence could be quite a
chore,
in related to networker, I do think the new Wizard does configure
automatically (7.3 onwards) and assign the devices correctly.
What has been practice in loading Tape drivers and best?
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