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SPARC and Netra SPARC T5 Series Servers Administration Guide

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Updated: August 2016
 
 

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 drive in slot 0 (the default boot device).

  • When you use Oracle Solaris 10 Jumpstart, you must refer to drives with a specific syntax. The letters in the WWN portion of the drive name must be capitalized, while the c, t, and d initial characters are lower case (for example, c0t5000C50033438DBBd0).

  • When you run the Oracle Solaris format command, you must select one of the logical device names presented in the output. To ensure that you select the correct drive for an operation, you must correlate these logical device names with the physical drives.

  • When you see a system message that lists a drive's logical device name, you might need to identify the physical slot in which the drive is installed.

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