#include <linux/hdreg.h> /* for HDIO_GETGEO */
#include <linux/fs.h> /* for BLKGETSIZE and BLKRRPART */
CONFIG
The block device name has the following form:
sd lp, where
l is a letter denoting the physical drive, and
p is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. Often, the
partition number,
p , will be left off when the device corresponds to the whole drive.
SCSI disks have a major device number of 8, and a minor device number of
the form (16 *
drive_number ") + " partition_number , where
drive_number is the number of the physical drive in order of detection, and
partition_number is as follows:
partition 0 is the whole drive
partitions 1-4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
partitions 5-8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
For example,
/dev/sda will have major 8, minor 0, and will refer to all of the first SCSI drive
in the system; and
/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.
At this time, only block devices are provided. Raw devices have not yet
been implemented.
DESCRIPTION
The following
ioctl s are provided:
HDIO_GETGEO
Returns the BIOS disk parameters in the following structure:
struct hd_geometry {
unsigned char heads;
unsigned char sectors;
unsigned short cylinders;
unsigned long start;
};
A pointer to this structure is passed as the
ioctl(2) parameter.
The information returned in the parameter is the disk geometry of the drive
"as understood by DOS!" This geometry is
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
fdisk(1) ,efdisk(1) , and
lilo(1) . If the geometry information is not available, zero will be returned for all
of the parameters.
BLKGETSIZE
Returns the device size in sectors. The
ioctl(2) parameter should be a pointer to a
long .
BLKRRPART
Forces a re-read of the SCSI disk partition tables. No parameter is needed.
The
scsi(4) ioctl s are also supported. If the
ioctl(2) parameter is required, and it is NULL, then
ioctl () will return -EINVAL.
FILES
/dev/sd[a-h]: the whole device
/dev/sd[a-h][0-8]: individual block partitions
