Tape devices disappear until next reboot!!!

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Hi everyone,
I have a Win2k server and an Emulex LP9002 connected to an L700 with 5LTOs.
If I reboot the SCSI Bridge (Crossroards 10000) that connects the tape devices to the SAN I can't see no more the devices until next reboot.
Any suggestions???

Regards
PSS

[Kurt Beyers.]

PSS,

A hardware scan on the Win2k server should make them visible again.

Kurt

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

There's no way to make tape device visibles to the device manager.
The hardware scan detect no tapes!

[Marino Meloni_1]

Have you the last HBA driver? have you activate persistant binding? (just generic rules, not specific)

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Please explain me persistent binding

[Marino Meloni_1]

one parameter recommended to set in the registery is ResetTPRLO=2 in the FC HBA Driver registery, may be set with Lputilnt, but have to be doublechecked in regedit

http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/utilities/lputilnt/15a1/pdf/utility.pdf

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00166371/c00166371.pdf

http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/utilities/hbanyware/20a13/persistent_intro_scsi.htm

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Still I have the problem.
Any suggestions?

[Uwe Zessin]

Can you please tell us what you have tried during the last 10 days so we can limit our guesses?

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

I've implemented the persistent binding