[geeks] Raw disk access under Solaris

[Phil Stracchino]

On 09/06/16 10:48, Mouse wrote:
> Another possibility is that Solaris 9 still has the distinction between
> raw disk device and block disk devices (what SunOS with, say, an xy
> drive would have called /dev/xy0c vs /dev/rxy0c).  On at least some
> such systems, access to an unlabeled drive works only if you use the
> raw device, not the block device - /dev/rxy0c rather than /dev/xy0a, in
> the old naming scheme - and it's possible that Solaris 9 is such a
> system and you're getting the wrong device.

It does, but the distinction is made one level higher up --
/dev/dsk/c021d0s2 vs. /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2.


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