Hi,
Ghost devices are shown in scan -tape and tpautoconf -t.
We are trying to configure 5 new tape drives to an existing media server (it has two drives present already) Configured drives are working fine.
These two existing tape drives are SAS drives.
Device manager shows newly added drives along with already configured drives. All ghost entries are uninstalled as mentioned in Microsoft article.
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/315539
Qlogic SANSurfer shows the same information as Windows.
Even tpconfig -report_disc is listing both non configured devices along with two ghost devices.
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape3
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape2
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape2
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape4
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape4
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape5
======================= New Device (Drive) =======================
Inquiry = "IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 32E0"
Serial Number =
Drive Path = Tape6
Only devices tape 2 and 4 have ghost devices.