NAME

crl − VAX 8600 console RL02 interface

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple interface to the DEC RL02 disk unit which is part of the console subsystem on the VAX 8600 and 8650.  Access is given to the entire RL02 disk; the pack format is the same as that of RL02 disks on other controllers.  As on other VAX console media, transfers are done a word at a time using privileged registers (i.e., slowly). 

All I/O is raw; the seek addresses in raw transfers should be a multiple of 512 bytes and a multiple of 512 bytes should be transferred, as in other “raw” disk interfaces.  (Although the sector size is actually 256 bytes, the driver allows operations only on 512-byte boundaries.) 

FILES

/dev/crl

SEE ALSO

arff(8V)

4.3 Berkeley Distribution  —  May 21, 1986