Preface

The Solaris Handbook for SMCC Peripherals describes how to add and configure additional Sun Microsystems peripheral devices, such as disk drives, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and option cards to an existing system using the Solaris(TM)^TM operating environment.

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The Solaris operating environment includes the SunOS(TM) operating system, the OpenWindows(TM) operating environment, the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), compilers, and other software.

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The instructions in this manual are designed for an experienced system administrator.

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Before You Read This Book

Before you begin using the information in this book, you should:

• Read the documentation that accompanies your peripheral devices.

• Install the Solaris software on your system.

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If you have not yet installed the Solaris operating environment on your system, do so now.

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For more information about how to install the Solaris operating environment on your system, refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.

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How This Book Is Organized

This book contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Before You Start describes the procedures that you must perform before you install new peripherals.

Chapter 2, Setting Up a Disk Drive describes how to configure disk drive devices using the Solaris operating environment.

Chapter 3, Setting Up and Using a Tape Drive describes how to configure and use tape drive devices with the Solaris operating environment.

Chapter 4, Setting Up Removable Media Devices describes how to configure CD-ROM drives, diskette drives and PCMCIA memory cards.

Chapter 5, Setting Up an Option Card describes how to configure an option card using the Solaris software environment.

Appendix A, SCSI Addressing describes addressing concepts for the SCSI peripheral subsystem.

Appendix B, Booting Your System describes how to boot your system when you add a new device.

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain information on basic UNIX^® commands.

See one or more of the following for this information:

• AnswerBook(TM) online documentation for the Solaris software environment

• Other software documentation that you received with your system

Typographic Conventions

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Examples
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output.	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. % You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output.	% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized.  Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value.	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. To delete a file, type rm filename.

Shell Prompts

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	#

Related Documentation

Table P-3 Related Documentation

Application	Title	Part Number
System administration	Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.x) Handbook for SMCC Peripherals	801-2424
System administration	System Administration Guide, Vol. I	805-3727
System administration	System Administration Guide, Vol. II	805-3728
System administration	OpenBoot 2.x Command Reference Manual	805-4434
System administration	OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual	805-4436

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