[rescue] New acquisition... (AIX)

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
> Date: 2004/04/02 Fri PM 06:01:20 GMT
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] New acquisition... (AIX)
> 
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Mike Meredith wrote:

> > Actually they only half do it (which is probably good enough). If you
> > have two hme's in a Sun box, they're 'hme0' and 'hme1'.
> 
> But you'll never have them switch places on you because that information
> is cached in path_to_inst.  You'd have to boot -r to even frob that, and
> I doubt Sun would ever change the probe order anyway because people with
> large configurations would hurl nastiness at them.

I thought (on Sun hardware anyway) you could set the probe order anyway you 
like through the OpenBoot/eeprom settings(sbus-probe?), so you could work 
around any software funkiness (just like the SCSI drive mapping)...