pdimkdev(1M)                                            pdimkdev(1M)


       NAME
             pdimkdev - generate device nodes for Portable Device Interface
             (PDI) subsystem

       SYNOPSIS
             /etc/scsi/pdimkdev [-fis] [-d filename]

       DESCRIPTION
             pdimkdev(1M) reads the Equipped Device Table (EDT) built by
             the PDI drivers and makes any device nodes needed for access
             to the disk, tape, and SCSI controllers that are present on
             the system.  Since the device nodes that are created for each
             device are unique to that device type, template files are used
             to specify the device naming conventions.  The location of the
             template files is specified in a target controller index file,
             which may be supplied as a command line argument.  By default,
             any time a new device is detected, a message is printed on
             standard output describing the device.

             pdimkdev keeps a record of the EDT from invocation to
             invocation in /etc/scsi/pdi_edt.  If the EDT obtained by
             pdimkdev during execution is identical to the one in
             /etc/scsi/pdi_edt, no action is taken and pdimkdev exits.  If
             the EDT has changed since the last invocation, pdimkdev checks
             every node for every device in the EDT and creates any missing
             nodes.

          Options
             pdimkdev takes the following options:

             -f    Forces pdimkdev to run at a time other than from
                   init(1M).  pdimkdev is designed to be run from init; to
                   force its execution at any other time, you must use the
                   -f option.

             -i    Forces pdimkdev to ignore the existing record of this
                   machine's configuration in /etc/scsi/pdi_edt and update
                   all PDI device nodes, as if a new device had been added
                   to the system.

             -s    Suppress the standard output message from pdimkdev
                   indicating that new device nodes were just created for a
                   device.





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      pdimkdev(1M)                                            pdimkdev(1M)


            -d filename
                  Use filename instead of /etc/scsi/tc.index to determine
                  which template file to use for each device.

         Files
            /etc/scsi/mkdev.d/*
            /etc/scsi/pdi_edt
            /etc/scsi/tc.index

         Return Values
            On success, pdimkdev exits with a return code of zero when it
            detects new devices on the system.  If there are no new
            devices since the last time pdimkdev was executed, it exits
            with a positive return code.  If an error is detected, it
            exits with a negative return code.

      REFERENCES
            init(1M), pdimkdtab(1M)






























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