Installation guide

Diagnostics and Utilities 9-19

Show device displays information about each I/O device. Polling

checks the XMI bus for device configurations. The next line contains

three columns. The first column contains the device type and unit

number, node number, device channel number, XMI node number,

and I/O channel number, separated by periods. The second column

displays the name of the device given by the device controller. The

third column shows the device type.

In the boot command, -flags indicates that additional command pa-

rameters follow, 0 is the system root of the boot device, 0 is the boot-

strap option, dk is the device code of the boot device, a is the boot

device controller designation, and 1 specifies the hexadecimal unit

number of the boot device. The 1 is the node number, 0 is the chan-

nel number, 1 is the XMI node number, and 0 is the I/O channel

number.

The system boots standalone backup from the RRD42.

The operating system banner appears.

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