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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) 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) Date: 13 Jan 1996 23:49:42 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4d9cu6$cnk@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <cnordin.821050414@news.vni.net> <4crliv$smk@olympus.nwnet.net> <4cuums$bi1@helena.MT.net> <4d4153$437@durban.vector.co.za> <4d8m52$sv5@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1950 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2093 comp.unix.solaris:57209 comp.unix.aix:68687 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. >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. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.