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26 .TH SD 4 2012-05-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
28 sd \- driver for SCSI disk drives
31 .BR "#include <linux/hdreg.h> " "/* for HDIO_GETGEO */"
32 .BR "#include <linux/fs.h> " "/* for BLKGETSIZE and BLKRRPART */"
35 The block device name has the following form:
39 is a letter denoting the physical drive, and
41 is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive.
42 Often, the partition number,
44 will be left off when the device corresponds to the whole drive.
46 SCSI disks have a major device number of 8, and a minor device number of
48 .IR drive_number ") + " partition_number ,
51 is the number of the physical drive in order of detection, and
55 partition 0 is the whole drive
57 partitions 1-4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
59 partitions 5-8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
63 will have major 8, minor 0, and will refer to all of the first SCSI drive
66 will have major 8, minor 19, and will refer to the third DOS "primary"
67 partition on the second SCSI drive in the system.
69 At this time, only block devices are provided.
70 Raw devices have not yet been implemented.
78 Returns the BIOS disk parameters in the following structure:
84 unsigned char sectors;
85 unsigned short cylinders;
91 A pointer to this structure is passed as the
95 The information returned in the parameter is the disk geometry of the drive
96 .I "as understood by DOS!"
99 the physical geometry of the drive.
100 It is used when constructing the
101 drive's partition table, however, and is needed for convenient operation
107 If the geometry information is not available, zero will be returned for all
112 Returns the device size in sectors.
115 parameter should be a pointer to a
119 Forces a reread of the SCSI disk partition tables.
120 No parameter is needed.
124 operations are also supported.
127 parameter is required, and it is NULL, then
129 will fail with the error
132 /dev/sd[a\-h]: the whole device
134 /dev/sd[a\-h][0\-8]: individual block partitions