[SunHELP] Changing SCSI-Initiator ID

Lee Khuong sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Apr 19 09:57:53 CDT 2001


In addition to Les' email, if you want to change Scsi-Initiatior ID for
your storage/other devices, it is best to leave all target id at factory
default and initiate/change the scsi-id for your storage/other devices
at nvramrc (at OBP level).  Turn on use-nvramrc?=true

Lee

Les wrote:
> 
> IIRC, I would use extreme caution with that command on any machine
> which has more than one scsi initiator. You'll wind up with ALL
> of them set to the new scsi-initiator-id.
> Of course they are probably all set now to 7, but when you change
> one, you change all unless you go thru a sequence of commands
> (which I don't remember off the top of my head) to choose just the
> one and set it only.
> Les
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Ghent" <daleg at elemental.org>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Changing SCSI-Initiator ID
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Sam wrote:
> 
> |      Hi i want to change SCSI-Initiator ID. so how can i learn the
> | reprasentation of internal/local controller? Thanks
> 
> I am assuming you mean to do this on a SPARC-based machine.
> 
> To see the current SCSI initiator ID setting on a running machine:
> 
>     eeprom scsi-initiator-id
> 
> To set a new initiator ID:
> 
>     eeprom scsi-initiator-id=<new ID>
>     reboot
> 
> Note that chaning the ID requires a reboot.
> 
> /dale
> 
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