Re: What's wrong with this picture?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are two NWSDs here but all devices are restricted on the first one.

FYI Everything works fine once I deleted them and created my own. (I 
wanted a different name anyway.) It's just a curious that there were two 
appearing when I really didn't think that was even possible.
	
       - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/25/2013 2:28 PM, Evan Harris wrote:

> I've seen something similar to this (duplicate device names) when
> there is more than one NWSD and the devices aren't restricted on
> either of them.
>
> I've also ended up with additional devices on the guest when restoring
> storage spaces; seems like the old devices get restored and new ones
> get created based on the virtual scsi connections.
>
> I managed to clean some of it up by deleting the descriptions, varying
> off the NWSD allocated for tape, then varying it back on.
>
> Dunno which, or if any of this applies in your situation but for what
> it's worth...
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:11 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > IBM i 7.1 on POWER7 with TR5. This is a guest partition with an IBM i host.
> >
> >                    Work with Device Descriptions
> >
> > 2=Change 3=Copy  4=Delete 5=Display 6=Print 7=Rename
> >    8=Work with status 9=Retrieve source
> >
> >
> >     Device      Type    Text
> >     TAP01       3580    CREATED BY AUTO-CONFIGURATION
> >     TAP02       3580    CREATED BY AUTO-CONFIGURATION
> >     TAP03       3580    CREATED BY AUTO-CONFIGURATION
> >     TAP03       3580    CREATED BY AUTO-CONFIGURATION
> >     TAP04       3580    CREATED BY AUTO-CONFIGURATION
> >
> >
> > This is only one object in QSYS with the name TAP03 however.
> >
> > Any attempt to vary it on results in CPD8EB4 "Device vary on failed."
> >
> > Deleting one of them also deleted the other.
> >
> >          Curious.....
> > --
> >
> >           - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
> >
> > www.frankeni.com
> > www.iDevCloud.com
> > www.iInTheCloud.com