SD(4) | Device Drivers Manual | SD(4) |
sd
— SCSI disk
driver
sd* at scsibus?
#sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0
(fixed-configuration
example)
The sd
driver provides support for a SCSI
disk. It allows the disk to be divided up into a set of pseudo devices
called
partitions.
In general the interfaces are similar to those described by
wd(4).
SCSI devices have a fairly high level interface to the system and talk to it via a SCSI host adapter (e.g., ahc(4)). A SCSI adapter must also be separately configured into the system before a SCSI disk can be configured.
When the SCSI adapter is probed during boot, the SCSI
bus is scanned for devices. Any devices found which answer as
‘Direct’
type devices will be attached to the sd
driver.
On many systems disklabel(8) is used to partition the drive into filesystems. On some systems the OpenBSD portion of the disk resides within a native partition, and another program is used to create the OpenBSD portion.
For example, the i386 port uses fdisk(8) to partition the disk into a BIOS level partition. This allows sharing the disk with other operating systems.
The following
ioctl(2) calls apply to SCSI
disks as well as to other disks. They are defined in the header file
<sys/dkio.h>
.
DIOCGDINFO
struct disklabel *DIOCSDINFO
struct disklabel *DIOCWDINFO
struct disklabel *DIOCLOCK
int *DIOCEJECT
DIOCINQ
struct dk_inquiry *In addition, the
scsi(4) general
ioctl
()
commands may be used with the sd
driver, but only
against the ‘c
’ (whole disk)
partition.
If a removable device is attached to the
sd
driver, then the act of changing the media will
invalidate the disklabel and information held within the kernel. To avoid
corruption, all access to the device will be discarded until there are no
more open file descriptors referencing the device. During this period, all
new open attempts will be rejected. When no more open file descriptors
reference the device, the first next open will load a new set of parameters
(including disklabel) for the drive.
None.
intro(4), scsi(4), wd(4), disklabel(5), disklabel(8), fdisk(8)
The sd
driver was originally written for
Mach 2.5, and was ported to FreeBSD by Julian
Elischer. It was later ported to OpenBSD.
July 2, 2014 | OpenBSD-6.5 |