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IOCINFO (Device Information) SSA Disk Device Driver ioctl Operation

Purpose

To return a structure that is defined in the /usr/include/sys/devinfo.h file.

Description

The IOCINFO operation returns a structure that is defined in the
/usr/include/sys/devinfo.h header file. The caller supplies the address to an area of
type

struct devinfo

in the arg parameter to the IOCINFO operation. The

device-type

field for this component is DD_SCDISK; the

subtype

is DS_PV. The information that is

returned includes the block size in bytes and the total number of blocks on the disk
drive.

Files

/dev/pdisk0, /dev/pdisk1, ..., /dev/pdiskn

Provide an interface that allows SSA device drivers to have access to SSA
physical disk drives.

/dev/pdisk0, /dev/pdisk1,..., /dev/pdiskn

Provide an interface that allows SSA device drivers to have access to SSA
logical disk drives.

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