Roger Deschner wrote:
> It is undocumented, but when replacing fibre-connected LTO drives you
> must halt and restart the TSM server in order for it to correctly sense
> the new serial numbers. Nothing will work on the new replaced drive
> until you bounce the server. A Sun/STK engineer told me about this one.
> I know this is true in 5.5 - don't know about 6.1.

I've occasionally gotten the serial number to refresh by taking a drive
and its paths offline and back online. This is on a Spectra Logic T950
w/ IBM LTO3 drives. The weird thing is that it only sometimes works, though.

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