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cmdk(7D)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Files | Attributes | See Also

Name

    cmdk– common disk driver

Synopsis

    cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]

Description

    The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable disks.

    The cmdk device driver supports three different disk labels: fdisk partition table, Solaris x86 VTOC and EFI/GPT.

    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 considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmitted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk. Raw file names are found in /dev/rdsk.

    I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL error.

    Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.

    The fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.

Files

    /dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n

    block device (IDE)

    /dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n

    raw device (IDE)

    where:

    cn

    controller n.

    dn

    lun n (0-1).

    sn

    UNIX system slice n (0-15).

    pn

    fdisk partition (0–36).

    /kernel/drv/cmdk

    32-bit kernel module.

    /kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk

    64-bit kernel module.

Attributes

    See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

    ATTRIBUTE TYPE 

    ATTRIBUTE VALUE 

    Architecture 

    x86 

See Also

SunOS 5.11  Last Revised 4 Nov 2008

Name | Synopsis | Description | Files | Attributes | See Also