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diff --git a/upstream/debian-bookworm/man4/sd.4 b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man4/sd.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0a80ec59 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man4/sd.4 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +.\" sd.4 +.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH sd 4 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.03" +.SH NAME +sd \- driver for SCSI disk drives +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <linux/hdreg.h> " "/* for HDIO_GETGEO */" +.BR "#include <linux/fs.h> " "/* for BLKGETSIZE and BLKRRPART */" +.fi +.SH CONFIGURATION +The block device name has the following form: +.BI sd lp, +where +.I l +is a letter denoting the physical drive, and +.I p +is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. +Often, the partition number, +.IR p , +will be left off when the device corresponds to the whole drive. +.PP +SCSI disks have a major device number of 8, and a minor device number of +the form (16 * +.IR drive_number ") + " partition_number , +where +.I drive_number +is the number of the physical drive in order of detection, and +.I partition_number +is as follows: +.IP \[bu] 3 +partition 0 is the whole drive +.IP \[bu] +partitions 1\[en]4 are the DOS "primary" partitions +.IP \[bu] +partitions 5\[en]8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions +.PP +For example, +.I /dev/sda +will have major 8, minor 0, and will refer to all of the first SCSI drive +in the system; and +.I /dev/sdb3 +will have major 8, minor 19, and will refer to the third DOS "primary" +partition on the second SCSI drive in the system. +.PP +At this time, only block devices are provided. +Raw devices have not yet been implemented. +.SH DESCRIPTION +The following +.IR ioctl s +are provided: +.TP +.B HDIO_GETGEO +Returns the BIOS disk parameters in the following structure: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +struct hd_geometry { + unsigned char heads; + unsigned char sectors; + unsigned short cylinders; + unsigned long start; +}; +.EE +.in +.IP +A pointer to this structure is passed as the +.BR ioctl (2) +parameter. +.IP +The information returned in the parameter is the disk geometry of the drive +.I "as understood by DOS!" +This geometry is +.I not +the physical geometry of the drive. +It is used when constructing the +drive's partition table, however, and is needed for convenient operation +of +.BR fdisk (1), +.BR efdisk (1), +and +.BR lilo (1). +If the geometry information is not available, zero will be returned for all +of the parameters. +.TP +.B BLKGETSIZE +Returns the device size in sectors. +The +.BR ioctl (2) +parameter should be a pointer to a +.IR long . +.TP +.B BLKRRPART +Forces a reread of the SCSI disk partition tables. +No parameter is needed. +.IP +The SCSI +.BR ioctl (2) +operations are also supported. +If the +.BR ioctl (2) +parameter is required, and it is NULL, then +.BR ioctl (2) +fails with the error +.BR EINVAL . +.SH FILES +.TP +.I /dev/sd[a\-h] +the whole device +.TP +.I /dev/sd[a\-h][0\-8] +individual block partitions +.\".SH SEE ALSO +.\".BR scsi (4) |