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Operating Systems AIX How to prevent /dev/rmt* re-assignments Post 302178321 by bakunin on Tuesday 25th of March 2008 08:40:11 AM
Old 03-25-2008
hmmm, coming up every time the same *is* the default behavior. There must be something wrong with your machine.

I can only guess, but i suspect that something with the ODM is wrong and therefore the cfgmgr which runs at boot time tries (probably in vain) to correct that. Maybe the following helps: completely remove the tape drive from the ODM (use "rmdev -dl" generously) and make sure the tape drive shows up nowhere in the ODM (check CuAt and PdDv tables primarily). Then reboot the machine so that the drives configuration is written anew.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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mkdevalloc(1M)                                            System Administration Commands                                            mkdevalloc(1M)

NAME
mkdevalloc - Make device_allocate entries SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mkdevalloc DESCRIPTION
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Obsolete | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
mkdevalloc might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system. SunOS 5.10 8 Oct 2003 mkdevalloc(1M)
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