If you can upgrade to RHEL 5.3, the udev machinery in that release
automatically generates persistent device names that NetWorker for Linux
can automatically use. See the long email I sent on just this topic last
week.

tl 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Eidler, Dean
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:35 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Persistent Binding in Linux

NW 7.3.4
RH Linux Enterprise 5, v2.6 kernel.

I (a *nix newbie) am trying to setup persistent binding on a Linux host
connecting to EMC Clarion Virtual Tape Library (requested by EMC).

Before I setup the udev rules I need to get the "name" of the tape
devices. I have tried

Scsi_id -u -g -s /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0  and get nothing back.

I have also tried
Scsi_id -u -g -s /dev/nst0  and get nothing back.

What is the correct device name to use as an argument to scsi_id? Local
networker support has refused to help.

Thanks
Dean.



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