Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for assigning
alias addresses to base addresses. An assignment is provided of base
addresses to the devices. The base addresses are used to access the
devices assigned to the base addresses. An assignment is provided of a
plurality of alias addresses to an alias address pool. The alias
addresses in the alias address pool are capable of being dynamically
assigned to the devices to service I/O requests to the devices. An
Input/Output (I/O) request to access one target device comprising one of
the devices is processed. A determination is made as to whether the base
address assigned to the target device is available. One alias address is
assigned to the target device in response to determining that the base
address is not available. The I/O request is issued to the assigned alias
address to transmit the request to the target device.