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Managing Peripheral Devices
8.4 Connecting Devices and Loading Device Drivers
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† Manually connecting devices and loading drivers Section 8.4.1
‡ Manually connecting devices and loading drivers Section 8.4.2
Suppressing autoconfiguration Section 8.4.3
†VAX specific
‡Alpha specific
8.4.1 Manually Connecting Devices and Loading Device Drivers (VAX Only)
On VAX systems, whenever possible, use the SYSGEN command
AUTOCONFIGURE to connect standard devices and load device drivers.
However, in some cases, such as connecting non-Compaq devices, you cannot
use the AUTOCONFIGURE command. In addition, AUTOCONFIGURE does not
connect the following devices or load their device drivers:
• Console storage device
• Network communications logical device
• Virtual terminals
In addition to these devices, other devices and drivers might be present that
AUTOCONFIGURE does not connect and load. On VAX systems, use the System
Generation utility (SYSGEN) to manually connect devices and load device drivers.
For more information, refer to the SYSGEN section of the OpenVMS System
Management Utilities Reference Manual and the OpenVMS VAX Device Support
Manual. (These manuals have been archived but are available on the OpenVMS
Documentation CD-ROM.)
Caution
Use extreme care when issuing SYSGEN CONNECT and LOAD
commands because the system does little error checking. An incorrect
vector address or misspelled device name, for example, will damage the
I/O database and could cause the system to fail.
To manually connect special devices each time the system starts up, add
these SYSGEN commands to the site-specific startup command procedure
SYCONFIG.COM. For more information, see Section 5.2.4.1.
Console Storage Device
To connect the console storage device on VAX systems, use the following
CONNECT command:
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN
SYSGEN> CONNECT CONSOLE
SYSGEN> EXIT
Note
This command may be different on some platforms. See the VAX
installation and upgrade manual for information about the console
commands available for your specific platform.
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