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- SD(4) Minix Programmer's Manual SD(4)
- NAME
- sd, st, sg - SCSI hard disk / tape / generic
- DESCRIPTION
- The sd*, st*, sg* family of devices refer to the SCSI hard disk, tape and
- generic driver using the Adaptec 154x series of controllers. This manual
- page only describes the differences between the sd and hd devices, read
- hd(4) first.
- The devices numbers of the SCSI devices are statically mapped onto the
- SCSI targets 0 to 7. This is done like the hd devices with sd[0-4]
- referring to target 0, sd[5-9] to target 1, etc. The logical unit number
- is always 0, because devices with more than one logical unit are
- virtually extinct. The mapping may be changed from the boot environment
- however (see boot(8)).
- Tapes start at minor device 64, with nrst0 at minor 64, rst0 at 65, nrst1
- at 66, etc. The mapping is again static to target (minor - 64) / 2. The
- rst devices rewind the tape on close, the nrst devices do not. See
- mt(1), and mtio(4) for a description of the commands that may be sent to
- the tape, either from the command prompt or from a program.
- Through the eight raw generic devices rsg[0-7] starting at minor 120, one
- can send SCSI commands to any SCSI device from user mode. (Minix-vmd
- only.)
- The driver returns a drive geometry of 64 heads by 32 sectors per track
- for small disks with the DIOCGETP ioctl. For large disks 255x63 is
- returned. The size in sectors is usually larger than the largest
- cylinder number indicates, because the disk is not likely to exactly
- match that faked geometry. Note that DOS may not be able to access those
- last few sectors.
- Disk like devices.
- Removable disks (floppies), CD-ROM's and WORM disks may also be accessed
- through the sd devices. One is not allowed to write a WORM disk however,
- because it is likely to be taken from an alien operating system, so it
- seems safer to not allow Minix to stomp over it. One usually needs
- special O.S. support to keep one from writing to the same block twice.
- The DIOCEJECT ioctl ejects CD-ROMs, floppies, etc. (See eject(1).) A
- fixed disk spins down if it supports the stop command.
- SCSI Tapes
- There are two types of SCSI tapes drives supported by the driver: fixed
- or variable block size tape drives. Examples of the first kind are
- cartridge tapes, with a fixed 512 bytes block size. An Exabyte tape
- drive has a variable block size, with a minimum of 1 byte and a maximum
- of 245760 bytes (see the documentation of such devices.) The maximum is
- truncated to 32767 bytes for Minix-86 and 61440 bytes for Minix-vmd,
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- because the driver can't move more bytes in a single request.
- A read or write to a fixed block size tape must be a precise multiple of
- the block size, any other count gives results in an I/O error. A read
- from a variable block sized tape must be large enough to accept the block
- that is read, otherwise an I/O error will be returned. A write can be
- any size above the minimum, creating a block of that size. If the write
- count is larger than the maximum block size then more blocks are written
- until the count becomes zero. The last block must be larger than the
- minimum of course. (This minimum is often as small as 1 byte, as for the
- Exabyte.)
- The mt blksize command may be used to select a fixed block size for a
- variable block sized tape. This will speed up I/O considerably for small
- block sizes. (Some systems can only use fixed mode and will write an
- Exabyte tape with 1024 byte blocks, which read very slow in variable
- mode.)
- A tape is a sequence of blocks and filemarks. A tape may be opened and
- blocks may be read from it upto a filemark, after that all further reads
- return 0. After the tape is closed and reopened one can read the blocks
- following the filemark if using a non-rewinding device. This makes the
- tape look like a sequence of files.
- If a tape has been written to or opened in write-only mode, then a
- filemark is written if the tape is closed or if a space command is
- issued. No extra filemark is written if the drive is instructed to write
- filemarks.
- Raw Generic Devices
- Under Minix-vmd one can use the generic SCSI devices to program a SCSI
- device entirely from user mode. The disk and tape devices probe for
- devices when opened, start disks and load tapes, but the generic devices
- do nothing of this. Given an open file descriptor to any SCSI character
- device (not just the generic devices) one can use the following ioctl:
- ioctl(fd, SCIOCCMD, &scsicmd)
- The structure whose address is passed as the third argument is defined in
- <sys/scsi.h> as follows:
- struct scsicmd {
- void *cmd;
- size_t cmdlen;
- void *buf;
- size_t buflen;
- void *sense;
- size_t senselen;
- int dir;
- };
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- Cmd and cmdlen hold the address and length of an object holding a Group 0
- or Group 1 SCSI command. The next two fields describe a buffer of at
- most 8 kilobytes used in the data in or out phase. Dir is 0 if data is
- to be read from the device, 1 if data is written to the device. If the
- ioctl succeeds then 0 is returned, otherwise -1 with errno set to EIO and
- the request sense info returned in the buffer described by the sense and
- senselen fields. If the sense key is zero on error then a host adapter
- error occurred, this means that the device is most likely turned off or
- not present.
- FILES
- /dev/sd[0-9], /dev/sd[1-46-9][a-d] Usual disk devices.
- /dev/rst4, /dev/nrst4 Usual tape device.
- /dev/rsg[0-7] Raw generic devices.
- SEE ALSO
- hd(4), mt(1), eject(1), mtio(4), dd(1).
- AUTHOR
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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