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2011 Dec 21
8
Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?
...usly the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 system made sense
to me... I had a SATA controller card with 8 ports, and they showed up with
the numbers 1-8 in the "t" position of the device name.
But I just built a new system with two LSI SAS HBAs in it, and my device
names are along the lines of:
/dev/dsk/c0t5000CCA228C0E488d0
I could not find any correlation between that identifier and the a)
controller the disk was plugged in to, or b) the port number on the
controller. The only way I could make a mapping of device name to
controller port was to add one drive at a time, reboot the system, and run
"format" to...