hello managers.
after replacing a tz88 drive in an alphaserver 4100 running v5.1 i noticed
new tape device files being built on boot. so now i have /dev/tape/tape1_*
along with tape0_*. since i only have the one drive i wanted to get
everything back to just tape0 device files. i found several posts in the
archives suggesting to use dsfmgr -m tape1 tape0 or
dsfmgr -e tape1 tape0
the former returns
dsfmgr: ERROR: second device status is active: tape0
and the latter returns
dsfmgr: ERROR: find device node tape0 : Device record not found in status
database
dsfmgr: ERROR exchange failed: Device record not found in status database
there were also suggestions for using hwmgr.
hwmgr -delete component -id 47
returned delete operation successful
then
hwmgr -refresh component
also returned successful
then
dsfmgr -K
this returned nothing
these i tried to no avail and after two more reboots i am now at device
files of tape3_*. also interesting is that hwmgr shows a rogue tape
device with hardware id of 0.
# hwmgr -show scsi
SCSI DEVICE DEVICE
DRIVER NUM DEVICE FIRST
HWID: DEVICEID HOSTNAME TYPE SUBTYPE OWNER PATH FILE VALID PATH
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0: 3 dec4100 tape none
0 1 (null)
42: 0 dec4100 cdrom none
0 1 cdrom0 [0/5/0]
43: 1 dec4100 disk none
2 1 dsk0 [1/0/0]
44: 2 dec4100 disk none
2 1 dsk1 [1/1/0]
45: 4 dec4100 disk none
2 1 dsk2 [1/5/0]
46: 5 dec4100 disk none
2 1 dsk3 [1/6/0]
63: 6 dec4100 tape none
0 1 tape3 [1/4/0]
do you have any other suggestions for things to try? or are my two choices
a) live with it or b) rebuild?
thank you!
dave lunzer
dave.lunzer_at_meteorlogix.com
Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 23:19:48 NZDT