Openvms And Osf/1 Console Device Names; Displaying The Openvms And Osf/1 System Device Display - Digital Equipment DECpc AXP 150 Customer Technical Information

Displaying the OpenVMS and OSF/1 System Device Display

Displaying the OpenVMS and OSF/1 System Device Display
This section describes how to display the system device display
Summary
and determine the storage and boot devices installed in the
system.
Displaying the Example 5–1 shows the command that you must enter to display
System Device the system device display and a sample of the display that this
Display command generates.
Using the You can use the system device display for the following tasks:
System Device
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Display
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Identifying the Table 5–1 lists the device names that you can use as boot devices
Boot Devices in the OpenVMS and OSF/1 console.
Table 5–1 OpenVMS and OSF/1 Console Device Names
Device
Name Description
ERA0 ERA0 (OpenVMS) or EZ0A (OSF/1) represents the Ethernet device. You use
or this device when booting the system over a network.
EZ0A
DKA0 DKA0 represents a disk drive with a SCSI ID of 0. It is the default boot
device when the system is shipped.
DKAn00 DKAn00 represents a CD-ROM drive, disk drive, or diskette drive with a
SCSI ID of n, where n is a number in the range 1 to 6.
MKAn00 MKAn00 represents a tape drive with a SCSI ID of n, where n is a number in
the range 1 to 6.
5–2 Using the OpenVMS and OSF/1 Console
Identifying the OpenVMS and OSF Boot Devices
Displaying information on the devices in the system
Identifying errors in the system device configuration
See Chapter 7 for information on using the system
device display for identifying errors in the system device
configuration.