Matching Devices To Device Names; Importance Of Matching A Physical Device To A Name - Oracle SPARC Administration Manual

Matching Devices to Device Names

These topics explain how to identify drives and other devices on the server with names that are
recognized by or displayed by software and firmware. The same physical device is known by
different types of names in different contexts.
"Importance of Matching a Physical Device to a Name" on page 69
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"WWN Syntax" on page 70
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"Display Server Components (Oracle ILOM)" on page 71
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"Locate Device Paths (OpenBoot)" on page 72
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"Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (diskinfo
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Command)" on page 72
"probe-scsi-all Device Naming (OpenBoot)" on page 74
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"Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (probe-scsi-all
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Command)" on page 75
"Identify a Disk Slot (Oracle Solaris)" on page 76
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"WWN Syntax in an Oracle Solaris 10 Installation on an Individual Drive" on page 78
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"WWN Syntax in an Oracle Solaris 10 Installation on a RAID Volume" on page 79
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Related Information
"Configuring SP and Host Network Addresses" on page 63
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"Configuring Hardware RAID" on page 81
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Importance of Matching a Physical Device to a Name

These are some situations when you must correlate a logical device name with the device's
physical location.
When downloading the OS over a network, you must specify the logical device name of the
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drive in slot 0 (the default boot device).
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