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Subject: Re: Changing SCSI address in shoebox
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This explanation doesn't take into account the SPARCstation eeprom's
"sd-targets" variable which is used as an indirect array of SCSI id
numbers. For instance, if sd-targets=31204567 (the default, I believe),
then the drive with SCSI id 0 becomes sd3 for booting purposes (the first
digit of sd-targets, which identifies SCSI id 0, is a "3") and the drive
with SCSI id 3 becomes sd0.

Of course, the device name used by SunOS comes from the kernel
configuration file (disk sd0 at ... ) and has nothing to do with the name
you use to boot the machine. Very confusing to say the least.

Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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