Re: [suse-sles-e] Persistence of tape drive names

From: Jeff Hanson (jhanson_at_sgi.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2006 - 16:38:32 CEST


Message-ID: <44B7AC68.8060605@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:38:32 -0400
From: Jeff Hanson <jhanson@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Persistence of tape drive names

Dr J Pelan wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Jeff Hanson wrote:
>
>> A colleague is installing Networker on a SLES9 system with 3 FC tape drives.
>> The system will not always discover the devices in the same order and st
>> then will label the drives differently. This plays havoc with Networker.
>> Is there a way to make the naming persistent across reboots?
>
> ls /dev/tape/by-id

Thanks. Anyone know offhand how to make network use /dev/tape versus st devices?

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