NAME
xy, xyc - disk driver for Xylogics 450 and 451 SMD Disk Con-
trollers
SYNOPSIS
xyc@2d,ee40/xy@slave,0:partition
xyc@2d,ee48/xy@slave,0:partition
DESCRIPTION
The driver for Xylogics 450/451 devices consists of several
components: a controller driver module (xyc) and a slave
device driver module (xy). Each driver module has an associ-
ated configuration file, which lives in the same directory
as the driver module. See driver.conf(4) and for the
interpretation of the contents of these files.
The block files access the disk using the system's normal
buffering mechanism and may be read and written without
regard to physical disk records. There is also a raw
interface that provides for direct transmission between the
disk and the user's read or write buffer. A single read or
write call usually results in only one I/O operation; there-
fore raw I/O is considerably more efficient when many words
are transmitted. The physical names of the raw files conven-
tionally have `,raw' appended to them. The logical names for
the raw files live in the /dev/rdsk directory, as usual.
When using raw I/O, transfer counts should be multiples of
512 bytes (the size of a disk sector). Likewise, when using
lseek(2) to specify block offsets from which to perform raw
I/O, the logical offset should also be a multiple of 512
bytes.
Partition 0 is normally used for the root file system on a
disk, partition 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and
partition 2 for backing up the entire disk. Partition 2 nor-
mally maps the entire disk and may also be used as the mount
point for secondary disks in the system. The rest of the
disk is normally partition 6. For the primary disk, the user
file system is located here.
Due to word ordering differences between the disk controller
and Sun computers, user buffers that are used for raw I/O
must not begin on odd byte boundaries.
DISK SUPPORT
This driver handles all SMD drives by reading a label from
sector 0 of the drive which describes the disk geometry and
partitioning.
FILES
/kernel/drv/xyc
driver module
/kernel/drv/xy
driver module
/kernel/drv/xyc.conf
driver configuration file
/kernel/drv/xy.conf
driver configuration file
/dev/dsk/cXdYsZ
block device, controller X, unit Y, slice Z
/dev/rdsk/cXdYsZ
raw device, controller X, unit Y, slice Z
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| ____________________________|_____________________________|_
| Architecture | SPARC (Sun-4/200, Sun-|
| | 4/300, and Sun-4/400 series|
| | only) |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
lseek(2), read(2), write(2), driver.conf(4), attributes(5),
dkio(7I), hdio(7I)
NOTES
In raw I/O read(2) and write(2) truncate file offsets to
512-byte block boundaries, and write(2) scribbles on the
tail of incomplete blocks. Thus, in programs that are likely
to access raw devices, read(2), write(2), and lseek(2)
should always deal in 512-byte multiples.
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