On 01/11/11 19:24, Michael Leone wrote:
> > On 01/11/11 18:22, Michael Leone wrote:
>>> The other week, I had to reboot my NW 7.6.2 server on Windows. And it
> then
>>> decided to change the SCSI ID of my autochanger. So I had to delete
> that
>>> definition, and re-add it with the new ID. That all worked, but it now
>
>>> appears as if 2 of the tape volumes are still mounted on the old
>>> autochanger (i.e., doing "mminfo -av -q "near,savetime < 1 day" -r
>>> "pool,volume,volaccess(22),location" shows 2 with location of the old
>
>>> definition).
>>>
>>> How can I unmount these 2 tapes? I don't see the old definition with
> the
>>> old SCSI ID anywhere ...
>>>
>>
>> Why did you have to delete and re-add it?
>
> Support told me to ...
>
>> You could have just changed
>> the SCSI address in the NSR jukebox resource. Better still you could
>> implement persistent binding on the HBA and prevent this ever happening
>> again.
>
> I do have persistent binding enabled (I thought), but I guess I only have
> it for tape drives, and not the autochanger itself ...
Persistent binding for the library is quite simple - you just need to do
plain old-fashioned HBA binding. It's more complicated for tape drives
on Windows because the OS screws you up by messing with the mapping from
SCSI address to device name.
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