Well your paths of discovery are pretty educational. Getting them on a blog
that could be indexed and searched could help some folks...
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> why would I blog? I don't know anything..... unless it were a means to
> teach me.... errr.... reinforce what I've learned.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:18 PM, John J. Macey <jjmacey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Have you ever thought to Blog?
>>
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>> On 02/02/2015 02:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> thank you oh wise ones
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Todd Millecam <tyggna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, if you want to manipulate the way the kernel uses a device, you
>>> can usually find it under a directory like:
>>>
>>> /proc/bus/
>>> or
>>> /sys/bus/
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:47 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> which bus and slot it sits in. like if you wanted to know which card
>>>> or whatnot to yank.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I found the answer!
>>>>>
>>>>> there is a phrase in the lshw manpage that says -short is "very
>>>>> much like the output of HP-UX's ioscan.'
>>>>>
>>>>> A websearch for 'HP-UX's ioscan' brings up it's man page which states:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *hw path* A numerical string of hardware components, notated
>>>>> sequentially from the bus address to the device
>>>>> address. Typically, the initial number is
>>>>> appended by slash (*/*), to represent a bus
>>>>> converter (if required by your machine), and
>>>>> subsequent numbers are separated by periods (*.*).
>>>>> Each number represents the location of a hardware
>>>>> component on the path to the device.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could someone explain to me what 'the location of a hardware
>>>>> component' means?
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was wondering, I can run lshw with the -short option and it gives
>>>>>> me a list:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> H/W path Device Class Description
>>>>>> ============================================
>>>>>> system Computer
>>>>>> /0 bus Motherboard
>>>>>> /0/1 memory 3888MiB System memory
>>>>>> /0/6 processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
>>>>>> /0/0 memory RAM memory
>>>>>> etc...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> does anyone know what a 'H/W path' is?
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>
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