............................Contents


Preface	ix
1. Terminals and Modems	1
...About Terminals, Modems, Ports, and Services	2
......About Terminals	2
......About Modems	2
......About Ports	3
......About Services	3
...About Serial Port Manager and Service Access Facility	4
......About Serial Port Manager	5
...Instructions for Setting Up Terminals, Modems, and Ports	11
......· How to Add Terminals	11
......· How to Add Modems	14
......· How to Initialize Ports Without Configuring	20
......· How to Disable Ports	23
......· How to Remove Port Services	24


...Troubleshooting Tips for Terminals and Modems	25
2. Disk Drives	27
...About Preparing Hard Disks for Use	28
......About Hard Disks in General	28
......About Disk Formatting	30
......About Disk Slices	31
......About Disk Labels	35
......Autoconfiguration of SCSI Disk Drives	36
...Instructions for Setting Up Disks	38
......Adding a System Disk	38
......Adding a Secondary Disk	38
......· How to Perform a Reconfiguration Boot	39
......· How to Check If a Disk Is Formatted	40
......· How to Format a Disk	41
......· How to Check If a Disk Has Slices	45
......· How to Create Slices and Label a Disk	47
......· How to Create a File System for Each Slice	50
......· How to Add a Third-Party Disk	51
......· How to Remove a Disk Drive	54
3. CD-ROM and Diskette Drives	55
...How Solaris Manages CD-ROM and Diskette Drives	56
......Using Diskettes	57
......Automatically Sharing CD-ROMs and Diskette File Systems	58
...Instructions for Adding a CD-ROM	59


......· How to Add a CD-ROM Drive	59
...Instructions for Using CD-ROM and Diskette Media	60
......Formatting Diskettes Before Use	60
......· How to Find Out What Media Has Been Inserted	60
......Troubleshooting Tips for CD-ROMs and Diskette Devices	61
...Reference Material for CD-ROM and Diskette Devices	62
......Volume Management Man Pages	63
4. Tape Drives	65
...Instructions for Adding a Tape Drive	66
......· How to Add a SCSI Tape Drive	66
...Reference Material for Tape Drives	67
5. Device Drivers	69
...About Device Drivers	69
......Device Drivers in the Solaris 2.x Environment	70
...Instructions for Adding and Removing Device Drivers	71
......· How to Add a Device Driver	71
......· How to Remove a Device Driver	72
A. The Service Access Facility	73
...Overview of the Service Access Facility	74
......Overall Administration: `sacadm` Command	75
......Service Access Controller: SAC Program	75
......Port Monitor Service Administrator: `pmadm` Command	76
......Port Monitors: TTY Monitor and Network Listener	79
...Administering `ttymon` Port Monitors	81


......· How to Add a `ttymon` Port Monitor	81
......· How to View `ttymon` Port Monitor Status	82
......· How to Stop a `ttymon` Port Monitor	82
......· How to Start a `ttymon` Port Monitor	83
......· How to Disable a `ttymon` Port Monitor	83
......· How to Enable a `ttymon` Port Monitor	83
......· How to Remove a `ttymon` Port Monitor	84
...Administering `ttymon` Services	84
......· How to Add a Service	84
......· How to View the Status of a TTY Port Service	85
......· How to Enable a Port Monitor Service	86
......· How to Disable a Port Monitor Service	87
...Administering `listen` Port Monitors	87
......· How to Add a `listen` Port Monitor	87
......· How to View `listen` Port Monitor Status	88
......· How to Stop a `listen` Port Monitor	88
......· How to Start a `listen` Port Monitor	89
......· How to Enable a `listen` Port Monitor	89
......· How to Disable a `listen` Port Monitor	89
......· How to Remove a `listen` Port Monitor	90
...Administering `listen` Port Monitor Services	90
......· How to Add a `listen` Port Monitor Service	90
......· How to List `listen` Port Monitor Services	91
......· How to Enable a `listen` Port Monitor Service	91


......· How to Disable a `listen` Port Monitor Service	92
...Troubleshooting the Network Listener: `listen` Port Monitor	92
...Reference Material for Service Access Facility Administration	93
......Files Associated With SAF	93
......Service States	93
......Port Monitor States	94
......Port States	95
B. Connecting Devices to the Serial Port	97
...General Information About Serial Port Devices	97
......Modems	97
......Other Peripherals	98
...Connecting Terminals	98
...Connecting Modems	99
......Connecting Cables	99
......Setting Modem Switches	99
...Debugging Hints	101
C. `format` Utility	105
...About `format`	105
......`format` Definition	105
......Features and Benefits	106
......When to Use `format`	106
......Requirements or Restrictions for Using `format`	107
......Prerequisite Information Needed to Use `format`	107
...Instructions for Using `format`	108


......Repairing a Defective Sector	108
...Background for `format`	111
......Format Menu and Command Descriptions	112
......Files Use by `format`--`format.dat`	117
......Associated Man Pages	124
......Rules for Input to `format` Commands	124
Index	127