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devio(4)							      devio(4)

Name
       devio - device information interface

Syntax
       #include <sys/ioctl.h>
       #include <sys/devio.h>

Description
       The  interface obtains status, device attributes, and other information
       by polling the controlling device driver.  There are two ioctl requests
       associated with this interface: DEVIOCGET and DEVGETGEOM.

       The  file  contains  the	 needed	 structure  and definitions to use the
       DEVIOCGET and DEVGETGEOM ioctl requests.

       The DEVIOCGET ioctl request is used to obtain generic  device  informa‐
       tion  by	 polling  the underlying device driver.	 The following example
       shows the basic structure used by this request:
       /* Structure for DEVIOCGET ioctl - device get status command */

       struct devget  {
	  short	  category;	       /* Category		     */
	  short	  bus;		       /* Bus			     */
	  char	  interface[DEV_SIZE]; /* Interface (string)	     */
	  char	  device[DEV_SIZE];    /* Device (string)	     */
	  short	  adpt_num;	       /* Adapter number	     */
	  short	  nexus_num;	       /* Nexus or node on adapter # */
	  short	  bus_num;	       /* Bus number		     */
	  short	  ctlr_num;	       /* Controller number	     */
	  short	  slave_num;	       /* Plug or line number	     */
	  char	  dev_name[DEV_SIZE];  /* ULTRIX device mnemonic     */
	  short	  unit_num;	       /* ULTRIX device unit number  */
	  unsigned soft_count;	       /* Driver soft error count    */
	  unsigned hard_count;	       /* Driver hard error count    */
	  long	  stat;		       /* Generic status mask	     */
	  long	  category_stat;       /* Category specific mask     */
       };

       The DEVGETGEOM ioctl request  is	 used  to  obtain  disk	 geometry  and
       attributes by polling the underlying device driver.  This ioctl request
       is only supported on MSCP and SCSI disk drivers.	 The  ioctl  fails  on
       other  types of drivers which do not support DEVGETGEOM.	 The ioctl may
       fail if the device driver is unable  to	obtain	geometry  information.
       This  could happen if the disk media is removable and there is no media
       loaded in the drive.

       The following example shows the basic structure used by this request:
       /* Structure for DEVGETGEOM ioctl - disk geometry information */

       typedef union devgeom {
	 struct {
	    unsigned long  dev_size;   /* number of blocks in user area	 */
	    unsigned short  ntracks;   /* number of tracks per cylinder	 */
	    unsigned short  nsectors;  /* number of sectors per track	 */
	    unsigned short  ncylinders; /* total number of cylinders	 */
	    unsigned long   attributes; /* Device attributes		 */
	  } geom_info;
	  unsigned char	      pad[124];	 /* Allocate space for expansion */
       } DEVGEOMST;
       The following is a description of the  fields  of  the  DEVGEOMST  data
       structure.   Many of the fields correspond to attributes that are often
       specified in the disk description file This ioctl is used by  the  sub‐
       routine to dynamically generate disktab entries.

       dev_size	   This field contains the number of user accessible blocks on
		   the	disk.	The  corresponding  disktab  field  is	 which
		   describes the size of the "c" partition.

       ntracks	   This	 field	contains the number of tracks per cylinder and
		   corresponds to the field of a disktab entry.

       nsectors	   This field contains the number of  sectors  per  track  and
		   corresponds to the field of a disktab entry.

       ncylinders  This field contains the number of cylinders on the disk and
		   corresponds to the field of a disktab entry.

       attributes  This field represents disk attributes.

       pad	   This field is not used to store disk information.  The  pad
		   element of the DEVGEOMST is used to provide room for future
		   expansion of the information fields.

Restrictions
       The DEVGETGEOM ioctl request is only supported on MSCP  and  SCSI  disk
       drivers.

See Also
       creatediskbyname(3x), ra(4), rz(4), disktab(5)

								      devio(4)
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