2.11BSD#431 - /usr/man/cat4/rk.0

RK(4)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		    RK(4)


NAME
     rk - RK-11/RK05 disk

SYNOPSIS
     /sys/conf/SYSTEM:
	  NRK  rk_drives # RK05

     /etc/dtab:
	  #Name Unit# Addr   Vector Br Handler(s)      # Comments
	  rk	?     177400 220    5  rkintr	       # rk05

     major device number(s):
	  raw: 15
	  block: 6
     minor device encoding:
	  specifies drive: <rk_drive>

DESCRIPTION
     Minor device numbers are drive numbers on one controller.
     The standard device names begin with ``rk'' followed by the
     drive number and then the letter "h".  The character ?
     stands here for a drive number in the range 0-7.

     The block files access the disk via the system's normal
     buffering mechanism and may be read and written without
     regard to physical disk records.  There is also a `raw'
     interface which 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 there-
     fore 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 begin on a word (even) boundary,
     and counts should be a multiple of 512 bytes (a disk sec-
     tor).  Likewise seek calls should specify a multiple of 512
     bytes.

DISK SUPPORT
     The rk driver does not support pseudo-disks (partitions).
     Each file rk?h refers to the entire drive as a single
     sequentially addressed file.  Each drive has 4872 512-byte
     blocks.

     It's not clear what one would do with one of these drives if
     one had one ...

FILES
     /dev/rk[0-7]h	 block files
     /dev/rrk[0-7]h	 raw files
     /dev/MAKEDEV	 script to create special files
     /dev/MAKEDEV.local  script to localize special files


Printed 11/26/99	 August 20, 1987			1


RK(4)		    UNIX Programmer's Manual		    RK(4)


SEE ALSO
     hk(4), ra(4), ram(4), rl(4), rp(4), rx(4), si(4), xp(4),
     dtab(5), autoconfig(8)

DIAGNOSTICS
     rk%d: hard error sn%d er=%b ds=%b.  An unrecoverable error
     occurred during transfer of the specified sector of the
     specified disk.  The contents of the two error registers are
     also printed in octal and symbolically with bits decoded.
     The error was either unrecoverable, or a large number of
     retry attempts could not recover the error.

     rk%d: write locked.  The write protect switch was set on the
     drive when a write was attempted.	The write operation is
     not recoverable.

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.

     DEC-standard error logging should be supported.

     A program to analyze the logged error information (even in
     its present reduced form) is needed.


Printed 11/26/99	 August 20, 1987			2