NAME

     sd - Driver for SCSI Disk Drives

SYNOPSIS

     #include <linux/hdreg.h>

CONFIG

     The block device name has the following form:  sdlp, 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 dev-
     ice   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")  parti-
     tions

     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_REQ
          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) ioctls are also supported.  If the ioctl(2)
          parameter  is  required,  and it is NULL, then ioctl(2)
          will return -EINVAL.

FILES

     /dev/sd[a-h]: the whole device
     /dev/sd[a-h][0-8]: individual block partitions

SEE ALSO

     scsi(4)