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Accessing the Devices
Attaching devices to your system isn’t some magical process where connections just occur and things simply work. Yes, vendors have told you that very thing for years, but it isn’t true. A lot of work takes place under the seeming magic to make the connectivity between your system and its attached devices work. In some cases, the amount of software used to make the connection work verges on the astounding when you start to think about the sequence of actions that must occur.
It’s not just a matter of creating connectivity between the system and the device either. There are layers to the process. At the lowest level is the operating system, which relies on device drivers to create the connection between devices and the ...
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