| Title: | NetWorker |
| Notice: | kits - 12-14, problem reporting - 41.*, basics 1-100 |
| Moderator: | DECWET::RANDALL .com::lenox |
| Created: | Thu Oct 10 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 750 |
| Total number of notes: | 3361 |
I had a problem the other day with Networker 4.2 on an Alpha NT 3.51 server. I have two tape drives on the system, a DAT and a DLT. The DAT is in a StorageWorks module, so I often take it out to share with other systems in our data center. Problem was, when I took it out the other day, I rebooted the system while the drive was out. When I went to put the drive in, the device driver wouldn't load for it. Also, Networker had renamed my DLT drive to be \\.\Tape0 instead of the \\.\Tape1 it used to be. Now I have everthing working again, but if I insert the DAT drive again, and reboot, it will be seen as \\.\Tape0 again and screw up my config again. Does anyone know how to change the DAT drive driver to load after the DLT driver to make sure that the DLT drive remains as \\.\Tape0??? Regards, Jason Trimble [email protected]
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| 660.1 | please send complaints to Bill... | montlake.zso.dec.com::lenox | reply to [email protected] or decwet::lenox | Tue May 06 1997 14:20 | 18 |
NetWorker didn't rename your DLT drive to \\.\Tape0, NT did (when you rebooted NT with only the one drive on it, check out the Registry for yourself), and since you already had \\.\Tape0 defined to NetWorker, it didn't know what you had done behind its back. This behavior is actually noted in the admin guide, which I noticed after this odd behavior happened to me. (Since on unix it doesn't matter, I wasn't used to NT's way of working). This stuff usually depends on the scsi ids used, so if your DAT drive was id 1 before and the DLT drive at id 2, then try putting your DAT drive at 3.... this is only an example. This isn't a NetWorker issue, this is an NT issue. It may work differently between NT 3.51 and NT 4.0, so be warned. If you don't have any ids to spare, you may have to fuss and put it back to the original setup. | |||||
| 660.2 | DECWET::RANDALL | Tue May 06 1997 14:21 | 5 | ||
You could try making certain that the SCSI ID of the DAT drive is lower then the SCSI ID of the DLT drive. I'm not positive this will work. Amy would know better. -- Rich Randall | |||||