Installing replacement tape drive 11.0

[OldSchool]

K-class running HP-UX 11.0.

I needed to replace a DLT7000 (dead) that's in a SMART enclosure. Removed the old, set the scsi address on the new one to match the old. Inserted and ran "ioscan -nfC tape". It shows the new drive at a different instance thent the old one (was 10/16/4.0.0 - now 10/16/4.1.0), and none of the device files were attached to it.

I can live w/ the new instance, but how do I get all of the devices files (like /dev/rmt/3m) out there?

thx....scott

[Doug Burton]

Should work....
Out with the old (rmsf).
In with the new (insf).

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The main thing at work here is that you apparently did NOT set the SCSI address correctly. If it was 10/16/4.0.0 and is NOW 10/16/4.1.0, then you did not set the SCSI address on the new drive to 0, you set to 1. If you want it to be 0, power the drive off, remove it from the enclosure, set the SCSI ID to 0, reinsert, and power on.

If you just want to create your new device files, you can do an 'insf -H 10/16/4.1.0'. However, be aware that you may wind up with /dev/rmt/4m* files since 3m was already used.

The easiest thing to do is probably double check and fix the SCSI ID on the new drive.

[Torsten.]

Looks to me the old scsi id was "0" but now it is "1".
To create device files do "insf -e -C tape"

[OldSchool]

As noted, setting the scsi addr to 0 and "insf -d tape2 -e" solved the issue.

thx....