From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 14:14:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6831585E for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id XAA15938; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:03:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA78001; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:01:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199906252101.XAA78001@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Jun 25, 1999 11:59:49 am" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Cc: justin@apple.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > > > FYI: The Compaq HSG80 Fibrechannel RAID controllers have their > > WWN in NVRAM. One is supposed to get the WWN from a label on the *cabinet* > > into the HSG controller. This allows for easy hardware swap in case of > > hardware grief. > > Yes, if you want the WWN to stay constant. Well, you do. Especially when you are using things like zoning (like that Brocade switches can do) or when the host directly ties things to the wwn it talks to. E.g. for connection to Sun we use Jaycor adapters that allow things like "target=foo lun=bar www="<64bitnumber>" in the Solaris /kernel/drv/sd.conf file -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message