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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" from: @(#)intro.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 31.\" 32.Dd February 17, 2017 33.Dt INTRO 4 vax 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm intro 37.Nd introduction to vax special files and hardware support 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39This section describes the special files, related driver functions, 40and networking support 41available in the system. 42In this part of the manual, the 43.Tn SYNOPSIS 44section of 45each configurable device gives a sample specification 46for use in constructing a system description for the 47.Xr config 1 48program. 49The 50.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 51section lists messages which may appear on the console 52and/or in the system error log 53.Pa /var/log/messages 54due to errors in device operation; 55see 56.Xr syslogd 8 57for more information. 58.Sh VAX DEVICE SUPPORT 59This section describes the hardware supported on the 60.Tn DEC 61.Tn VAX-11 . 62Software support for these devices comes in two forms. 63A hardware 64device may be supported with a character or block 65.Em device driver , 66or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 67.Em network interface driver . 68Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 69system of a special type; see 70.Xr physio 4 71and 72.Xr mknod 8 . 73Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 74communication facilities provided by the system; see 75.Xr socket 2 . 76.Pp 77A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 78and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 79into the system. 80When the resultant system is booted, the 81autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device 82on either the 83.Tn UNIBUS 84(or 85.Tn Q-bus ) 86or 87.Tn MASSBUS 88and, if found, enable the software 89support for it. 90If a 91.Tn UNIBUS 92device does not respond at autoconfiguration 93time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. 94To enable a 95.Tn UNIBUS 96device which did not autoconfigure, the system will have to 97be rebooted. 98If a 99.Tn MASSBUS 100device comes 101.Dq on-line 102after the autoconfiguration sequence 103it will be dynamically autoconfigured into the running system. 104.Pp 105The autoconfiguration system is described in 106.Xr vax/autoconf 4 . 107A list of the supported devices is given below. 108.Sh SEE ALSO 109.Xr config 1 , 110.Xr netintro 4 , 111.Xr vax/autoconf 4 112.Rs 113.%T "Building 4.3 BSD UNIX Systems with Config" 114.%B SMM 115.%N 2 116.Re 117.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 118The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 119the system. 120Pseudo-devices are not listed. 121Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 122If second vendor products provide functionally identical interfaces 123they should be usable with the supplied software. 124.Bf -symbolic 125Beware, 126however, that we promise the software works 127ONLY with the hardware indicated on the appropriate manual page. 128.Ef 129Occasionally, new devices of a similar type may be added 130simply by creating appropriate table entries in the driver. 131.Bl -column tmscp description -offset indent 132.It acc ACC LH/DH IMP communications interface 133.It ad Data translation A/D interface 134.It css DEC IMP-11A communications interface 135.It crl VAX-8600, 8650 console RL02 disk 136.It ct C/A/T or APS phototypesetter 137.It ddn ACC ACP625 DDN Standard Mode X.25 IMP interface 138.It de DEC DEUNA 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 139.It dh DH-11 emulators, terminal multiplexor 140.It dhu DHU-11 terminal multiplexor 141.It dmc DEC DMC-11/DMR-11 point-to-point communications device 142.It dmf DEC DMF-32 terminal multiplexor and parallel printer interface 143.It dmz DEC DMZ-32 terminal multiplexor 144.It dn DEC DN-11 autodialer interface 145.It dz DZ-11 terminal multiplexor 146.It ec 3Com 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 147.It en Xerox 3Mb/s Ethernet controller (obsolete) 148.It ex Excelan 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 149.It fl VAX-11/780 console floppy interface 150.It hdh ACC IF-11/HDH IMP interface 151.It hk RK6-11/RK06 and RK07 moving head disk 152.It hp MASSBUS disk interface (with RP06, RM03, RM05, etc.) 153.It ht TM03 MASSBUS tape drive interface (with TE-16, TU-45, TU-77) 154.It hy DR-11B or GI-13 interface to an NSC Hyperchannel 155.It ik Ikonas frame buffer graphics device interface 156.It il Interlan 1010, 1010A 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 157.It ix Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 158.It kg KL-11/DL-11W line clock 159.It lp LP-11 parallel line printer interface 160.It mt TM78 MASSBUS tape drive interface 161.It np Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller (intelligent mode) 162.It pcl DEC PCL-11 communications interface 163.It ps Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 graphics interface 164.It qe DEC DEQNA Q-bus 10 Mb/s Ethernet interface 165.It rx DEC RX02 floppy interface 166.It tm TM-11/TE-10 tape drive interface 167.It tmscp TMSCP-compatible tape controllers (e.g., TU81, TK50) 168.It ts TS-11 tape drive interface 169.It tu VAX-11/730 TU-58 console cassette interface 170.It uda DEC UDA-50 disk controller 171.It un DR-11W interface to Ungermann-Bass 172.It up Emulex SC-21V, SC-31 UNIBUS disk controller 173.It ut UNIBUS TU-45 tape drive interface 174.It uu TU-58 dual cassette drive interface (DL-11) 175.It va Benson-Varian printer/plotter interface 176.It vp Versatec printer/plotter interface 177.It vv Proteon proNET 10Mb/s and 80Mb/s ring network interface 178.El 179.Sh HISTORY 180The section 4 181.Nm intro 182appeared in 183.Bx 4.1 . 184