Hi

In my testing with Windows 2008 and NetWorker, the IBM tape driver MUST
be installed in non-exclusive mode, in order for NetWorker to see and
use the tape device special files created by the driver.

tl 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:41 PM
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Subject: [Networker] Persistent Binding - IBM "non-exclusive" drivers

Greetings - 

We've been experimenting with persistent binding in our environment and
have recently gotten it to work in our lab using the latest version of
the "non-exclusive" IBM driver - the "exclusive" version does not work.
Our environment is:

 - Networker server version 7.4.4 running on a Windows 2003 sp2 server.
 - Several EDL based VTL's that emulate ADIC i2000 libraries with LTO3
drives (all VTL drives are dedicated).
 - A physical ADIC i2000 library with LTO3 and LTO4 drives that use
dynamic drive sharing.

The question for the forum is, is there anything about the non-exclusive
version of the IBM driver that raises red flags?  We intend to do more
testing, but if this is a dead end I'd rather spend the time elsewhere.

...and if/when we get this to work, I'm posting the process to the wiki,
it's been...err...fun.

Thanks in advance
--brerrabbit

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