Sun Microsystems SunSAI/P, User Manual

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Chapter 5 Device Driver Installation 23
Creating New Devices
Devices have been created in
/dev
, giving the operating system the information to
use the additional ports.
The device driver will support up to 12 SunSAI/P adapters, depending upon your
system.
The devices are named according to the following convention:
Note –
See Chapter 6 for more information about TTY device names.
TABLE 5-1
Format Used For Port Names
Format Description
/dev/term/
Directory path for dial-in devices.
/dev/cua/
Directory path for dial-out devices.
a
-
z
,
A
-
Z
Module letter ID.
000
-
007
Port Number. For example, for the first board, the module letter and
port numbers will be
a000
-
a007
. For the second board, they will
be
b000
-
b007
.