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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:01:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        justin@apple.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System unique identifier.....
Message-ID:  <199906252101.XAA78001@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906251159240.38018-100000@semuta.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Jun 25, 1999 11:59:49 am"

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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

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