On 14 February 2011 15:55, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:

> It sounds like it should be simple.  Unfortunately, so far every drive
> replacement has been a pain.
>
> The CE said he does a "flash" via the 3494 Library Manager which should do
> what you are saying.
>

Adreed, yes that should.


>
> In the mean time, while gathering SAN info from all of my drives, I
> discovered that 2-have the same identical WWN info but the serial numbers
> are different.  IIRC, my SAN guy said something about not caring about the
> WWN since he has all tape drives and servers that use them in a group/pool
> (??? I am not a SAN person so I am not sure of the correct terminology and
> my SAN guy is out sick).
>
> Duplicate WWN's is not right at all.  There can be 2 numbers, the PORT WWN
and the HOST WWN.  Not 100% sure if a lib will present the Host WWN - but I
can check that on a library in the office.

If it is really the PORT WWN that is wrong, they should be unique.

It Sounds like your SAN guy must be port Zoning rather than pWWN zoning -
which is why he doesnt care.

Either way, if the pWWN is changed and the S/N is changes it shoud just
work....

have you got SAN discovery off or on?

Steven