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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Date: 14 Jan 1996 20:38:04 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) wrote:
: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes:
: >Solaris 2.x: plug it into an SBUS slot, then "boot -r", then watch as
: >all your devices get reassigned and nothing mounts anymore.
: Nope, only devices you move get reassigned.
: The newly detected card will get the next free number for the specific
: controller type.
I inserted a Sun SCSI card in an SS20 running Solaris 2.3 patched to the
hilt. I did not move any other cards. The "boot -r" reassigned the
new controller as controller 0, which of course, didn't have any boot
devices on it.
: >It is only easy if you always put whatever new card your installing as
: >the last card on the bus. This can be especially confusing with the
: >sparc 1000 and sparc 2000.
: That's not true, unless you move othe cards around.
: The /etc/path_to_inst file remembers which controllers you had before and
: they will not be renumbered.
: If you reinstall the machine, then your controllers may get different
: numbers.
I have unde my care a SS2000 with 32 drives that reassigned everything
when someone did a "boot -r" by mistake. Solaris 2.3.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
http://tencats.rmkhome.com