DDS DRIVE

[Nobody's Hero]

Looks like I had a faulty terminator if anybody remembers my tape drive problem yesterday. I removed the terminator and now the drive works, go figure. Well during the troubleshooting period I changed the scsi id, now I have a floating 'no_hw' state device. Can I use rmsf to remove this?
See below. I want to remove 2m.
ioscan -fnC tape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
tape 1 0/6/0/0.5.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE QUANTUM DLT8000
/dev/rmt/1m /dev/rmt/1mn /dev/rmt/c4t5d0BEST /dev/rmt/c4t5d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/1mb /dev/rmt/1mnb /dev/rmt/c4t5d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c4t5d0BESTnb
tape 0 0/7/0/1.3.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C1537A
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/c6t3d0BESTn /dev/rmt/c6t3d0DDSb
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c6t3d0BEST /dev/rmt/c6t3d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/c6t3d0DDSn
/dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c6t3d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c6t3d0DDS /dev/rmt/c6t3d0DDSnb
tape 2 0/7/0/1.4.0 stape NO_HW DEVICE HP C1537A
/dev/rmt/2m /dev/rmt/2mnb /dev/rmt/c6t4d0BESTn /dev/rmt/c6t4d0DDSb
/dev/rmt/2mb /dev/rmt/c6t4d0BEST /dev/rmt/c6t4d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/c6t4d0DDSn
/dev/rmt/2mn /dev/rmt/c6t4d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c6t4d0DDS /dev/rmt/c6t4d0DDSnb

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

rmsf can only help you to remove the special files. You will need to reboot the server to get rid of the NO_HW status of this path in the kernel.

-Sri

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

Since it's not really there, it sure sounds safe to me. I would also think that the next reboot would clear it.

Pete

[Kevin Lamb_2]

Hi,

you could use rmsf -a "dev" this should remove the device and and associated files

kev

[Patrick Wallek]

You can use rmsf to remove the /dev/rmt files, but the only way to get rid of a NO_HW device is to reboot the system.

[JJ Smith_1]

Really?

So what would be the outcome of

rmsf -H 0/7/0/1.4.0 -k

?