device file changed after reboot.

[Srinivas_14]

Hi,

I have a dlt tape drive attached to my HP9000-K580 system. Recently I rebooted my machine. After that I noticed that the patch of the dlt drive has been changed from /dev/rmt/3m to /dev/rmt/2m. I did not change the scsci id on the dlt tape drive. There is a device file in the directory /dev/scsci/3. Since the device file has been changed how can I create (/dev/scsci/2) new device files.

Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# insf -e

...will create missing device files.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sajid_1]

Just a reboot will not make such type of changes. You need to figure out what went wrong. For creating device files from devices:
# insf -e
# ioscan -fnC tape

[Nick Wickens]

Just to add to the insf -e suggestion I had a problem whilst out of the office when someone re-booted the system which as it was resolved via my Jornada (great machines !) from Clacket lane service station on the UK's M25 I can't fully recall.

Anyway I found that I had to remove all of the /dev/rmt device files (ie 0m 1m etc) before running the insf -e to get things back the way they were.

As I said I can't fully recall the problem but you may find this helps if insf -e does'nt quite do the trick.