ITEM: BT2443L

Wants to renumber his tape drives

Question:

Env:
  AIX 4.1.4
  
Desc:
  Customer wants to renumber his tape drives.
  
Wants his tape drives to look this way

rmt0 8mm5gb
rmt2  3590 

Currently his tape drives are setup this way
rmt0 3590
rmt1 8mm5gb


1.  lsdev -Cc tape
    get all scsi information about each tape drive
       00-02-01-1,0  3590
       00-08-00-6,0  8mm5gb

2.  rmdev -dl rmt0
    rmdev -dl rmt1

3.  lsdev -Cc adapter
      Figure out which vscsi\# is for the 00-02-01 device
      Trying to figure out the parant adatper for the 3590 tape drive

4.  smitty tape     Adding the 8mm 5gb for rmt0
      Add a Tape Drive
         8mm5gb   scsi 5.0 GB 8mm Tape Drive (choose this one)
         Choose the correct connection address    00-08-00
         Choose the correct scsi id  6,0

5.  From the command line run this command
    mkdev -c tape -t 3590 -s scsi -p vscsi\# -w 1,0 -l rmt2
        Use the vscsi\# value from step 3

Next Action:
  Closing with customer approval




Support Line: Wants to renumber his tape drives ITEM: BT2443L

Dated: January 1997 Category: N/A

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