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- .th HS IV 2/9/75
- .sh NAME
- hs \*- RH11/RS03-RS04 fixed-head disk file
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- The files
- .it "hs0 ... hs7"
- refer to
- RJS03 disk drives 0 through 7.
- The files
- .it "hs8 ... hs15"
- refer to
- RJS04 disk drives 0 through 7.
- The RJS03 drives are each 1024 blocks long and
- the RJS04 drives are 2048 blocks long.
- .s3
- The
- .it hs
- 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'' inteface
- 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 therefore raw I/O is considerably more efficient when
- many words are transmitted.
- The names of the raw HS files begin with
- .it rhs.
- The same minor device considerations
- hold for the raw interface as for the normal interface.
- .s3
- In raw I/O the buffer must begin on a word boundary,
- and counts should be a multiple of 512 bytes
- (a disk block).
- Likewise
- .it seek
- calls should specify a multiple of 512 bytes.
- .sh FILES
- /dev/hs?, /dev/rhs?
- .sh BUGS
-