Displaying and Setting Paths
A path is the hardware address of a device that is attached to the I/O system
of your workstation. The path command sets the system paths shown in
Table 24.
The path command sets and displays the hardware address of a specified
device attached to the I/O bus of your workstation.
Table 24
System Paths
To display the current settings for the system paths, type the following at the
prompt:
The paths are displayed in Mnemonic Style Notation, as shown in Table 25.
Table 25
Mnemonic Style Notation
Path Type
primary or pri
Your workstation's default boot device (usually the root
disk)
alternate or alt
Your workstation's alternate boot device (usually a DDS-
format tape device)
console or con
Your workstation's primary display device
keyboard or
Your workstation's primary ASCII input device
key
Main Menu: Enter a command or a menu >
I/O Type
Built-in FWSCSI
core.fwsci.scsi_address.logical_unit_number
Built-in SCSI
core.scsi.scsi_address.logical_unit_number
Built-in LAN
core.lan.server_address.init_timeout.io_timeout
The Boot Console Interface
Displaying and Setting Paths
Device
path
Specification Format
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