We are currently using IBM device driver 6.2.04 for our 3584 library with 
3592-E05 drives.  Server is running Windows 2003 and TSM 5.5.3.0.

I was reading the driver documentation and saw that there is a registry setting 
that will force the tape driver to maintain its mapping (device name) after a 
reboot so I made the change to see if it would work.

After the first reboot after the registry change, the device names changed 
from: (this is just an example) \\.\tape1<file:///\\.\tape1> to 
\\.\tape4801101<file:///\\.\tape4801101>

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I changed the device name in the paths on 
the library manager server and it seems to work just fine.

Thanks,

Mark W Loy | Network Administrator - 1
PA Department of Transportation
Bureau of Infrastructure and Operations