In regard to: Re: [Networker] jbconfig in 7.4 selects wrong SCSI bus for...:

Tim Mooney wrote:

The library (a partitioned L700) and drives are connected over fibre via
a QLA2342 dual-port FC HBA.  The 2.6 kernel probes the busses in a
different order than the 2.4 kernel did, so the QLA2342 HBA now appears
as SCSI bus 2 & 3, whereas before it appeared as 0 & 1.  That meant a
re-run of jbconfig.

Why did this need a re-run of jbconfig? Wouldn't it have been easier just to change the control path field in the jukebox config rather than going through all the rigmarole of a jbconfig and full inventory?

You're correct that it would have, and we actually tried that first, but
we were having other issues with the jukebox at the time that lead us to
think we should try a full jbconfig.

This partition of the L700 is only 50 slots and a third of them are empty,
so the inventory wasn't a big deal.

Tim
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