HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access(2,5) MFM/IDE hard disk drives in(1,8)
raw(3x,7,8,3x cbreak) mode. The master(5,8) drive on the primary IDE controller (major device
number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master(5,8) drive of the sec-
ond controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a
letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the par-
tition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address
the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in(1,8) the order the par-
titions are discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get
a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the four parti-
tions described in(1,8) the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of
whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logical partition
will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partition-
ing are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in(1,8) the sys-
tem; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
...
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod(1,2) -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown(1,2) root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
chown(1,2)(1), mknod(1,2)(1), sd(4), mount(2,8)(8)
Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)