EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
12/14/2007 02:05:34 PM:

> > Under Windows 2003, every time you reboot or make changes, it's 
possible
> > for the tape device name to change. For example \\.\tape0 might be a
> > different physical device every time you reboot the server, reset the
> > san switch, etc...
> 
> AH.
> 
> > There are a couple of solutions.
> > 
> > 1) Remove the jukebox from Network and re-add the devices. You can use
> > inquire to determine which tape drive is which by serial numbers, 
etc...
> 
> I can probably do this ...

Think this was the solution. We had a 4 drive SDLT-320 library (which was 
congured by NW as \\tape0,1,2,3). We've added a 2nd tape library 
(SDLT-600), but have *not* yet added it (as the license hasn't come 
through yet). And of course, upon restarting NW srvices, it now saw the 
SDLT-320 drives as \\tape0,1,4,5, and the unconfigured library as 
\\tape2,3,6,7. But NW was showing me \\tape0,1,2,3.

I deleted the library, re-added, and it does seem better ... haven't seen 
the same error yet ....

And I was able to label tapes I was unable to label prior, so life seems 
good again ...

Thanks!!

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