term% cat index.txt HP(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual HP(4)
NAME
hp - RH-11/RP04, RP05, RP06 moving-head disk
DESCRIPTION
The octal representation of the minor device number is encoded idp,
where i is an interleave flag, d is a physical drive number, and p is a
pseudodrive (subsection) within a physical unit. If i is 0, the ori‐
gins and sizes of the pseudodisks on each drive, counted in cylinders
of 418 512-byte blocks, are:
disk start length
0 0 23
1 23 21
2 0 0
3 0 0
4 44 386
5 430 385
6 44 367
7 44 771
If i is 1, the minor device consists of the specified pseudodisk on
drives numbered 0 through the designated drive number. Successively
numbered blocks are distributed across the drives in rotation.
Systems distributed for these devices use disk 0 for the root, disk 1
for swapping, and disk 4 (RP04/5) or disk 7 (RP06) for a mounted user
file system.
The block files access the disk via the system's normal buffering mech‐
anism and may be read and written without regard to physical disk
records.
A ‘raw' interface provides for direct transmission between the disk and
the user's read or write buffer. A single read or write call results
in exactly one I/O operation and therefore raw I/O is considerably more
efficient when many words are transmitted. The names of the raw files
conventionally begin with an extra ‘r.' In raw I/O the buffer must be‐
gin on a word boundary, and raw I/O to an interleaved device is likely
to have disappointing results.
FILES
/dev/rp?, /dev/rrp?
SEE ALSO
rp(4)
BUGS
In raw I/O read and write(2) truncate file offsets to 512-byte block
boundaries, and write scribbles on the tail of incomplete blocks.
Thus, in programs that are likely to access raw devices, read, write
and lseek(2) should always deal in 512-byte multiples.
Raw device drivers don't work on interleaved devices.
HP(4)