TermIO-00

The HP A6748A/A6749A PCI MUX is a high-speed serial communication multiple port product. It combines various signals for transmission over a single channel and provides intelligent communication functions to off-load CPU serial communication processing tasks.

The A6748A/A6749A PCI MUX product supports the following components:

A6748A PCI MUX 8-port adapter
A6749A PCI MUX 64-port adapter
Fan Out Cable for PCI MUX 8-port adapter
Port modules and power supply for the Port Modules
RJ-45 to HP DB-25 Adapter and RJ-45 to HP RJ-45 Adapter
A6748A/A6749A PCI MUX adapter driver software

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The TermIO-00 driver bundle, which delivers the pci_mux driver, is added to the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment to support the A6748A and A6749A adapters.

HP-UX SAM support is discontinued with this release. Use the command-line interface mknod to create pci_mux0 instead of HP-UX SAM to create the device files.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

Use the command-line interface mknod instead of HP-UX SAM to create pci_mux0 device files on HP-UX 11i v3.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The following documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Multiplexers:

HP PCI Multiplexer Family Cabling, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Manual
HP PCI MUX Release Note

Manpages:

emux_stty(1)
emux_diag(1)

Obsolescence

Not applicable.