It sounds like it should be simple. Unfortunately, so far every drive replacement has been a pain.
The CE said he does a "flash" via the 3494 Library Manager which should do what you are saying. In the mean time, while gathering SAN info from all of my drives, I discovered that 2-have the same identical WWN info but the serial numbers are different. IIRC, my SAN guy said something about not caring about the WWN since he has all tape drives and servers that use them in a group/pool (??? I am not a SAN person so I am not sure of the correct terminology and my SAN guy is out sick). Either way, thanks for the info and I will make sure everything is flashed correctly before plugging in the fibre cables. Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: David Bronder <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 02/11/2011 05:31 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Re: There has got to be a better way - revisited Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > > Yes, the WWN would be changing - is that "user modify-able as well as the > serial #? Yes, the WWNs can also be modified. Normally, for a TS1120 canister replacement (I'd assume the same for the TS1130), among the steps the SE should perform is copying various drive settings from the old one to the new one, including the serial number and the WWNs. -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [email protected]
