<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Also, if you want to manipulate the way the kernel uses a device, you can usually find it under a directory like:<br><br></div>/proc/bus/<br></div>or<br></div>/sys/bus/<br><br></div>Using this, you can (often) deactivate a device and if the motherboard supports it, pull it out and replace it without rebooting the machine. Very handy for replacing PCI raid cards and faulty RAM without incurring any downtime.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:47 AM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">which bus and slot it sits in. like if you wanted to know which card or whatnot to yank.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I found the answer!<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is "very much like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page which states:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><i>hw path</i> A numerical string of hardware components, notated<br>sequentially from the bus address to the device<br>address. Typically, the initial number is<br>appended by slash (<b>/</b>), to represent a bus<br>converter (if required by your machine), and<br>subsequent numbers are separated by periods (<b>.</b>).<br>Each number represents the location of a hardware<br>component on the path to the device.<br></p></div><div><br></div><div>Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a hardware component' means?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option and it gives me a list:<div><div><br></div><div>H/W path Device Class Description</div><div>============================================</div><div> system Computer</div><div>/0 bus Motherboard</div><div>/0/1 memory 3888MiB System memory</div><div>/0/6 processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+</div><div>/0/0 memory RAM memory</div><div>etc...</div><div><br></div><div>does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?</div><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
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