
ssd(7D) Devices SunOS 5.5
NAME ssd − driver for SPARCstorage Array disk devices
SYNOPSIS ssd@port,target:partition
DESCRIPTION This driver handlesSCSI-2 disks in the SPARCstorage Array.
The SPARCstorage Array currently supports fixed media disk drives. The specific type
of each disk in the SPARCstorage Array is determined by the SCSI inquiry command and
reading the volume label stored on block 0 of the drive. The volume label describes the
disk geometry and partitioning;it must be present or the disk cannot be mounted by the
system.
The block-files access the disk using the system’s normal buffering mechanism and are
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 one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore con-
siderably more efficient when many bytes are transmitted. The names of the block files
are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk.
I/O requests (such as lseek(2)) to the SCSI disk must have an offset that is a multiple of
512 bytes (DEV_BSIZE), or the driver returns anEINVAL error. If the transfer length is not
a multiple of 512 bytes, the transfer count is rounded up by the driver.
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 normally
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.
IOCTLS Refer to dkio(7I).
ERRORS EACCES Permission denied.
EBUSY The partition was opened exclusivelyby another thread.
EFAULT The argument was a bad address.
EINVAL Invalid argument.
EIO An I/O error occurred.
ENOTTY The device does not support the requested ioctl function.
ENXIO When returned during open(2), this error indicates the device does not
exist.
EROFS The device is a read-only device.
FILES ssd.conf driver configuration file
/dev/dsk/cntndnsn block files
/dev/rdsk/cntndnsn raw files
7D-302 modified 6 Apr 1995
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