DevCon to remove ghost devices "remove failed"

[Jeff]

Hello,

I just pulled a Virtual Tape Library out of my backup environment and
am now having some stability issues with the remaining devices. In
working with the vendor, they suggested I check for ghost tape drives
that could cause issues. Sure enough they are there. When using
devcon, I run:

devcon findall =tapedrive

And a ton of devices like this show up:
SCSI\SEQUENTIAL&VEN_IBM&PROD_ULTRIUM-TD3&REV_8711\5&AF4D2D0&0&00050E:
IBM ULTRIU
M-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device

I then try to run a remove and get:
D:\temp>devcon remove "@SCSI\SEQUENTIAL&VEN_IBM&PROD_ULTRIUM-
TD3&REV_8711\5&AF4D
2D0&0&00050E"
SCSI\SEQUENTIAL&VEN_IBM&PROD_ULTRIUM-TD3&REV_8711\5&AF4D2D0&0&00050E:
Remove fai
led
No devices removed.

I know I can do this via device manager, but with the number of Media
Servers and devices, it would not be a fun excersize :)

Thanks in advance for any help,
Jeff

[Mike [MSFT]]

It seems that devcon can only remove devices that are currently present.
One option would be to modify the devcon source code to also remove
non-present devices (the source is available on MSDN). The change would be
one simple flag in the code and recompile.

-Mike

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