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8
Managing Peripheral Devices
System managers are often responsible for setting up and managing peripheral
devices such as terminals and printers. This chapter describes these tasks.
For information about managing storage media such as disks and tapes, see
Chapter 9.
Information Provided in This Chapter
This chapter describes the following tasks:
Task Section
Getting information about devices on the system Section 8.2
Setting security protection characteristics on devices Section 8.3
Connecting devices and loading device drivers Section 8.4
Automatically configuring devices for OpenVMS Alpha
systems
Section 8.5
Managing terminals Section 8.6
Managing modems Section 8.7
Managing printers Section 8.8
Managing tape drives Section 8.9
†Managing card readers Section 8.10
†VAX specific
This chapter explains the following concepts:
Concept Section
Device names Section 8.1
Device configuration Section 8.5.1
Spooled printers Section 8.8.2
8.1 Understanding Device Names
On some systems, device names follow the format ddcu, where dd is the device
code, c is the controller designation, and u is the unit number.
Local Digital Storage Architecture (DSA) devices use a controller letter of ‘‘A’’
regardless of the physical controller the device resides on. Preceding the letter
‘‘A’’:
• All local DSA disk devices are named DUAn, where n is a unique disk unit
number.
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