hello Joaquin,

the hostid is machine specific and it is stored in the NVRAM chip that
is located on the system board - so moving the disk to machine B will
use the hostid of machine B.

from the Frequently Asked Questions about Sun NVRAM/hostid:
"Every Sun 3/80, sun4c, sun4u, and sun4m architecture machine contains
an NVRAM chip (not to be confused with the NVRAM in Prestoserve). This
NVRAM chip stores various configuration parameters (e.g. boot device,
amount of RAM to test), maintains the clock, and also contains the
IDPROM data, which is composed of the ethernet address, date of
manufacture, hostid, a version number, and a checksum."
here is the link to the FAQ if you are interested:
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

hope this helps

Stoyan


Joaquin Henriquez Alzola wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> I think I already made my question on the subject of this mail. Does
> the HD have the hostid or it does the machine. This is because if I
> move from one HD from machine A to machine B does the HD have the
> hostid of the machine A or it takes the one from machine B.
> 
> Thnaks,
> 
> BR,
> 
> Joaquin
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