NAME

devices − file of driver information for insf, mksf, lssf

DESCRIPTION

The devices file contains a description of I/O drivers, pseudo-drivers, hardware addresses and block/character major numbers.  It is created by uxgen(1M). Normally, this file resides in the directory /etc. 

This is an ASCII file consisting of zero or more lines where each line is terminated by a newline character.  Each line begins with a name which normally represents an I/O driver or pseudo-driver.  Tokens are separated by white space. 

Each parameter in the line is preceded by a keyword.  All parameters are optional.  The keywords are: lu, address, b_major, c_major.  They represent logical unit number, hardware address, block major number, character major number, respectively.  Parameters may appear in any order after the name; however, they must be directly preceded by their keyword. 

For example, lines from a devices file follow:

cnc_major 0
disc0lu 0address 28.0.0b_major 0c_major 4
disc0lu 1address 28.0.2b_major 0c_major 4

AUTHOR

devices was developed by HP. 

SEE ALSO

insf(1M), mksf(1M), lssf(1M), uxgen(1M). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991