System Startup, Configuration, and Shutdown Reference Manual (32650-90907)

Appendix F
Adding Peripherals to a System
Adding a Peripheral to Any System
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Adding a Peripheral to Any System
Adding a disk drive, tape drive, or printer to a system’s configuration includes the following steps:
• Enter SYSGEN
• View the system’s current configuration
• Activate the IO configurator
• Make the necessary I/O configuration changes
• Hold the changes
• Save the changes
• Verify the accuracy of the new configuration
1. Activate SYSGEN’s global module.
Enter the SYSGEN command at the system prompt.
(/SYS/PUB)>sysgen
SYSGEN version E.03.00 : catalog version E.03.00 WED, FEB 13, 2002, 10:51 AM
Copyright 1987 Hewlett-Packard Co. All Rights Reserved.
** First level command **
io log (lo) misc (mi) spu (sp)
sysfile (sy)
basegroup (ba) keep(ke) permyes (pe) show (sh)
tape (ta)
clear (cl)(c) exit (ex)(e) help (he)(h) oclose (oc)
redo
sysgen>
2. Select the base group to modify.
If you desire to modify the default configuration groups, copy the groups to other group names and modify
the copies using the IO configurator. Copying the groups preserves uncorrupted versions of the default or
current configurations.
To copy configuration groups, use the BASEGROUP command to activate the desired configuration group.
Use the KEEP command to save the group of files to another group name. Refer to Chapter 4, “Using the
System Generator (SYSGEN),” for more information on using the BASEGROUP and KEEP commands.
After deciding which copied configuration group to modify, use the global module BASEGROUP command to
activate the group:
sysgen>BASEGROUP groupname
Use the I/O configuration contained in CONFNCL1 as an example configuration for this exercise.
3. Activate the IO configurator.
Enter the global module command, IO, at the SYSGEN prompt to activate the IO configurator: