Subject: Re: testing presence of a device (was sun-lamp CVS commits)
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Head Anarchy Conquest Knight Esquire of the Realm <greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/05/1995 18:16:08
I've noticed that under HP-UCCH there is a neat little command called "ioscan"
which probes the hardware bus (or, if you choose, checks the kernel first :-)
for configured hardware.  It then tosses out stuff like:

H/W Path  Description Status
=================================
1.0.0     graphics    ok(0x577)
2.0.1     scsi        ok(0x7071)
2.0.1.4.0 tape_drive  ok(0x1800202)
2.0.2     lan         ok(0x7072)
2.0.3     hil         ok(0x7073)
2.0.4     serial      ok(0x7075)
2.0.5     serial      ok(0x7075)
2.0.6     parallel    ok(0x7074)
2.0.7     scsi        ok(0x707c)
2.0.7.6.0 disk        ok(0x202)
2.0.8     audio       ok(0x707f)


Perhaps not what we had in mind here, but the principle is similar.



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