LTO Drive replacement procedure connected to HP-UX 11.

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(1) After HW-Drive replacement force ioscan for tapes

# ioscan -C tape
(2) Look for old device structures in DP after Drive replacement

# /opt/omni/lbin/devbra -dev
(3) Look for old Drive letters at status "NO_HW"

# ioscan -funC tape -N |grep NO

tape
SCSI

31 64000/0xfa00/0x15 estape NO_HW

DEVICE

HP

Ultrium 2-

(4) Delete LUN bindings from old device file

# scsimgr replace_wwid D /dev/rtape/tape31_BESTn

scsimgr:WARNING: Performing replace_wwid on the resource may have some
impact on system operation.
Do you really want to replace? (y/[n])? Y
scsimgr: Successfully validated binding of LUN paths with new LUN.
(5) Force ioscan again
# ioscan -C tape
(6) Look for new created tape drives in /dev/rtape
# ll -ltR /dev/rtape |pg
(7) Perform redirecting to old drive letter

# io_redirect_dsf -d /dev/rtape/tape31_BESTn -n /dev/rtape/tapeNEWLETTER_BESTn

(8) If you have an error like this, perform step (9)and then step (8) again

Device /dev/rtape/tape31_BESTn is busy. Cannot remove.

rmsf of has failed
(9) Force cold SCSI reset on Drive
# scsimgr cold_bdr -D /dev/rtape/tape31_BESTn
Do you really want to continue? (y/[n])? y
-ignore Error Message like this:

scsimgr: ERROR: Cannot open pass-through device for /dev/rtape/tape31_BESTn :

No such device or address.
The LUN or all its I/O paths may be disabled.
(10) Look for new device structures in DP after Drive replacement
# /opt/omni/lbin/devbra dev