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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 June 5, 1993 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. A hardware 63device may be supported with a character or block 64.Em device driver , 65or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a 66.Em network interface driver . 67Block and character devices are accessed through files in the file 68system of a special type; see 69.Xr physio 4 70and 71.Xr mknod 8 . 72Network interfaces are indirectly accessed through the interprocess 73communication facilities provided by the system; see 74.Xr socket 2 . 75.Pp 76A hardware device is identified to the system at configuration time 77and the appropriate device or network interface driver is then compiled 78into the system. When the resultant system is booted, the 79autoconfiguration facilities in the system probe for the device 80on either the 81.Tn UNIBUS 82(or 83.Tn Q-bus ) 84or 85.Tn MASSBUS 86and, if found, enable the software 87support for it. If a 88.Tn UNIBUS 89device does not respond at autoconfiguration 90time it is not accessible at any time afterwards. To 91enable a 92.Tn UNIBUS 93device which did not autoconfigure, the system will have to 94be rebooted. If a 95.Tn MASSBUS 96device comes 97.Dq on-line 98after the autoconfiguration sequence 99it will be dynamically autoconfigured into the running system. 100.Pp 101The autoconfiguration system is described in 102.Xr autoconf 4 . 103A list of the supported devices is given below. 104.Sh SEE ALSO 105.Xr config 1 , 106.Xr autoconf 4 , 107.Xr netintro 4 108.Rs 109.%T "Building 4.3 BSD UNIX Systems with Config" 110.%B SMM 111.%N 2 112.Re 113.Sh LIST OF DEVICES 114The devices listed below are supported in this incarnation of 115the system. Pseudo-devices are not listed. 116Devices are indicated by their functional interface. 117If second vendor products provide functionally identical interfaces 118they should be usable with the supplied software. 119.Bf -symbolic 120Beware, 121however, that we promise the software works 122ONLY with the hardware indicated on the appropriate manual page. 123.Ef 124Occasionally, new devices of a similar type may be added 125simply by creating appropriate table entries in the driver. 126.Pp 127.Bl -column tmscp description -offset indent 128.It acc ACC LH/DH IMP communications interface 129.It ad Data translation A/D interface 130.It css DEC IMP-11A communications interface 131.It crl VAX-8600, 8650 console RL02 disk 132.It ct C/A/T or APS phototypesetter 133.It ddn ACC ACP625 DDN Standard Mode X.25 IMP interface 134.It de DEC DEUNA 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 135.It dh DH-11 emulators, terminal multiplexor 136.It dhu DHU-11 terminal multiplexor 137.It dmc DEC DMC-11/DMR-11 point-to-point communications device 138.It dmf DEC DMF-32 terminal multiplexor and parallel printer interface 139.It dmz DEC DMZ-32 terminal multiplexor 140.It dn DEC DN-11 autodialer interface 141.It dz DZ-11 terminal multiplexor 142.It ec 3Com 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 143.It en Xerox 3Mb/s Ethernet controller (obsolete) 144.It ex Excelan 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 145.It fl VAX-11/780 console floppy interface 146.It hdh ACC IF-11/HDH IMP interface 147.It hk RK6-11/RK06 and RK07 moving head disk 148.It hp MASSBUS disk interface (with RP06, RM03, RM05, etc.) 149.It ht TM03 MASSBUS tape drive interface (with TE-16, TU-45, TU-77) 150.It hy DR-11B or GI-13 interface to an NSC Hyperchannel 151.It ik Ikonas frame buffer graphics device interface 152.It il Interlan 1010, 1010A 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 153.It ix Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller 154.It kg KL-11/DL-11W line clock 155.It lp LP-11 parallel line printer interface 156.It mt TM78 MASSBUS tape drive interface 157.It np Interlan NP-100 10Mb/s Ethernet controller (intelligent mode) 158.It pcl DEC PCL-11 communications interface 159.It ps Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 graphics interface 160.It qe DEC DEQNA Q-bus 10 Mb/s Ethernet interface 161.It rx DEC RX02 floppy interface 162.It tm TM-11/TE-10 tape drive interface 163.It tmscp TMSCP-compatible tape controllers (e.g., TU81, TK50) 164.It ts TS-11 tape drive interface 165.It tu VAX-11/730 TU-58 console cassette interface 166.It uda DEC UDA-50 disk controller 167.It un DR-11W interface to Ungermann-Bass 168.It up Emulex SC-21V, SC-31 UNIBUS disk controller 169.It ut UNIBUS TU-45 tape drive interface 170.It uu TU-58 dual cassette drive interface (DL-11) 171.It va Benson-Varian printer/plotter interface 172.It vp Versatec printer/plotter interface 173.It vv Proteon proNET 10Mb/s and 80Mb/s ring network interface 174.El 175.Sh HISTORY 176The section 4 177.Nm intro 178appeared in 179.Bx 4.1 . 180