Yes, I have confirmed it. When a drive goes missing, the other drives maintain 
their previous name. When a drive is replaced, the name may be different and 
you will have to use jbedit to fix.

-----Original Message-----
From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:38 AM
To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Matthew Huff
Subject: Re: [Networker] Library/Drive Names getting shuffled by Windows.

Matthew Huff wrote:
> You will know when the "fix" is working since you won't have device names 
> like \\.\tape0, \\.\tape1, etc... What hangs up most people is they try to 
> set persistent binding via the fiberchannel drivers. That works on Unix, but 
> the Windows plug & play driver overrides it and re-assigns device names, so 
> under windows its useless. Once you get the hotfix or ibm tape driver 
> working, it will be very obvious.
> 

Matthew,

This is something I am looking at just now. I have made the registry 
change on a system using the IBM drivers. After a reboot the device 
names do change to a format such as \\.\Tape4801101, however I have not 
tested what happens when a drive goes missing. Can you confirm that it 
does in fact work?

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