Has anyone managed to figure out how to hog-tie udev so it stops changing the 
scsidev address
(the control port) of their tape library on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (or 6)?

I just upgraded my server to RHEL 6.1 today and now my tape library is suddenly 
on 5.0.0
instead of 4.0.0 (The real scsi adapter connecting two AIT3 drives and the 
QLogic Fibre adapter
connecting the jukebox swapped places with the reboot after the OS maintenance 
was applied).

I have worked around it by using "nsradmin -d /nsr/res/nsrdb" (after stopping 
networker) to
change the resource.  That was probably not the correct way.  I was probably 
supposed to delete
the jukebox definition and create a new one, but with a tape library with 2500 
slots and only
14 tape drives, the inventory time is unacceptably long (and for everyone that 
is immediately
thinking -II -- forget it, a new jukebox can't use that you have to do the slow 
-I because it's
a new jukebox, might be duplicate barcodes -- at least I think that's what EMC 
is thinking...).

If you've managed to get through all the rambling, thanks for getting this far. 
 I am wondering
if there is something I can do either in udev or in the jukebox resource (via 
nsradmin) so I
don't care what the host value changes to next time - does anyone know?

Thanks,

-- 
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