[rescue] Ultra1 oddity

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 07:07:05PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> man path_to_inst:
> 
> Bottom line, when you have a device with an instance number, the first
> time the driver binds itself to that instance it registers the entry in
> /etc/path_to_inst.  This binding is maintained across reboots.  If you
> want to delete the old hme binding, just remove the applicable line(s)
> from /etc/path_to_inst.

again, good call:

"/sbus at 1f,0/SUNW,hme at 0,8c00000" 1 "hme"
"/sbus at 1f,0/SUNW,hme at 1,8c00000" 0 "hme"

moved from slot 1 to slot 0.  son of a.  well, it's rare that i re-arrange the
order of SBus cards so i've never dealt with this before.

> This really does make the most sense.  Solaris can't tell the difference
> between you moving an interface card and removing/installing one, so it
> assumes that any card in a different slot should get a different instance
> number.  This has saved my bacon more than once.  Making instances truly
> dynamic and detected per reboot is IMHO far more dangerous.

yeah, dynamic could be a royal pain.  thanks for the info, now i understand
what happened and am more prepared for the future now.

-brian
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