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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" from: @(#)intro.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 5, 1993 37.Dt INTRO 4 vax 38.Os BSD 4 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm intro 41.Nd introduction to special files and hardware support 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43This section describes the special files, related driver functions, 44and networking support 45available in the system. 46In this part of the manual, the 47.Tn SYNOPSIS 48section of 49each configurable device gives a sample specification 50for use in constructing a system description for the 51.Xr config 8 52program. 53The 54.Tn DIAGNOSTICS 55section lists messages which may appear on the console 56and/or in the system error log 57.Pa /var/log/messages 58due to errors in device operation; 59see 60.Xr syslogd 8 61for more information. 62.Sh VAX DEVICE SUPPORT 63This section describes the hardware supported on the 64.Tn DEC 65.Tn VAX-11 . 66Software support for these devices comes in two forms. A hardware 67device may be supported with a character or block 68.Em device driver , 69or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 70.Em network interface driver . 71Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 72system of a special type; see 73.Xr physio 4 74and 75.Xr mknod 8 . 76Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 77communication facilities provided by the system; see 78.Xr socket 2 . 79.Pp 80A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 81and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 82into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the 83autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device 84on either the 85.Tn UNIBUS 86(or 87.Tn Q-bus ) 88or 89.Tn MASSBUS 90and, if found, enable the software 91support for it. If a 92.Tn UNIBUS 93device does not respond at autoconfiguration 94time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. To 95enable a 96.Tn UNIBUS 97device which did not autoconfigure, the system will have to 98be rebooted. If 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 autoconf 4 . 107A list of the supported devices is given below. 108.Sh SEE ALSO 109.Xr intro 4 , 110.Xr netintro 4 , 111.Xr autoconf 4 , 112.Xr config 8 . 113.Rs 114.%T "Building 4.3 BSD UNIX Systems with Config" 115.%B SMM 116.%N 2 117.Re 118.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 119The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 120the system. Pseudo-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.Pp 132.Bl -column tmscp -offset indent 133acc ACC LH/DH IMP communications interface 134ad Data translation A/D interface 135css DEC IMP-11A communications interface 136crl VAX 8600, 8650 console RL02 disk 137ct C/A/T or APS phototypesetter 138ddn ACC ACP625 DDN Standard Mode X.25 IMP interface 139de DEC DEUNA 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 140dh DH-11 emulators, terminal multiplexor 141dhu DHU-11 terminal multiplexor 142dmc DEC DMC-11/DMR-11 point-to-point communications device 143dmf DEC DMF-32 terminal multiplexor and parallel printer interface 144dmz DEC DMZ-32 terminal multiplexor 145dn DEC DN-11 autodialer interface 146dz DZ-11 terminal multiplexor 147ec 3Com 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 148en Xerox 3Mb/s Ethernet controller (obsolete) 149ex Excelan 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 150fl VAX-11/780 console floppy interface 151hdh ACC IF-11/HDH IMP interface 152hk RK6-11/RK06 and RK07 moving head disk 153hp MASSBUS disk interface (with RP06, RM03, RM05, etc.) 154ht TM03 MASSBUS tape drive interface (with TE-16, TU-45, TU-77) 155hy DR-11B or GI-13 interface to an NSC Hyperchannel 156ik Ikonas frame buffer graphics device interface 157il Interlan 1010, 1010A 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 158ix Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 159kg KL-11/DL-11W line clock 160lp LP-11 parallel line printer interface 161mt TM78 MASSBUS tape drive interface 162np Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller (intelligent mode) 163pcl DEC PCL-11 communications interface 164ps Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 graphics interface 165qe DEC DEQNA Q-bus 10 Mb/s Ethernet interface 166rx DEC RX02 floppy interface 167tm TM-11/TE-10 tape drive interface 168tmscp TMSCP-compatible tape controllers (e.g., TU81, TK50) 169ts TS-11 tape drive interface 170tu VAX-11/730 TU58 console cassette interface 171uda DEC UDA-50 disk controller 172un DR-11W interface to Ungermann-Bass 173up Emulex SC-21V, SC-31 UNIBUS disk controller 174ut UNIBUS TU-45 tape drive interface 175uu TU58 dual cassette drive interface (DL11) 176va Benson-Varian printer/plotter interface 177vp Versatec printer/plotter interface 178vv Proteon proNET 10Mb/s and 80Mb/s ring network interface 179.El 180.Sh HISTORY 181The section 4 182.Nm intro 183appeared in 184.Bx 4.1 . 185