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

From: Jeff Hanson (jhanson_at_sgi.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2006 - 16:40:17 CEST


Message-ID: <44B7ACD1.7030702@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:40:17 -0400
From: Jeff Hanson <jhanson@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Persistence of tape drive names

Jeff Hanson wrote:
> 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?
                                           Networker

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