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.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
.\"
.\"	@(#)hk.4	6.2 (Berkeley) 6/1/86
.\"
.TH HK 4 "June 1, 1986"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
hk \- RK6-11/RK06 and RK07 moving head disk
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "controller hk0 at uba? csr 0177440 vector rkintr"
.br
.B "disk rk0 at hk0 drive 0"
.SH DESCRIPTION
Files with minor device numbers 0 through 7 refer to various portions
of drive 0;
minor devices 8 through 15 refer to drive 1, etc.
The standard device names begin with ``hk'' followed by
the drive number and then a letter a-h for partitions 0-7 respectively.
The character ? stands here for a drive number in the range 0-7.
.PP
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 therefore raw I/O is considerably more efficient when
many words are transmitted.  The names of the raw files
conventionally begin with an extra `r.'
.PP
In raw I/O counts should be a multiple of 512 bytes (a disk sector).
Likewise
.I seek
calls should specify a multiple of 512 bytes.
.SH "DISK SUPPORT"
The origin and size (in sectors) of the
pseudo-disks on each drive are as follows:
.PP
.nf
.ta .5i +\w'000000    'u +\w'000000    'u +\w'000000    'u
RK07 partitions:
	disk	start	length	cyl
	hk?a	0	15884	0-240
	hk?b	15906	10032	241-392
	hk?c	0	53790	0-814
	hk?d	25938	15884	393-633
	hk?f	41844	11792	634-814
	hk?g	25938	27786	393-813
.PP
RK06 partitions
	disk	start	length	cyl
	hk?a	0	15884	0-240
	hk?b	15906	11154	241-409
	hk?c	0	27126	0-410
.DT
.fi
.PP
On a dual RK-07 system
partition hk?a is used
for the root for one drive
and partition hk?g for the /usr file system.
If large jobs are to be run using
hk?b on both drives as swap area provides a 10Mbyte paging area.
Otherwise
partition hk?c on the other drive
is used as a single large file system.
.SH FILES
/dev/hk[0-7][a-h]	block files
.br
/dev/rhk[0-7][a-h]	raw files
.SH SEE ALSO
hp(4),
uda(4),
up(4),
syslogd(8)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
\fBrk%d%c: hard error sn%d cs2=%b ds=%b er=%b\fR.  An unrecoverable
error occurred during transfer of the specified sector of the specified
disk partition.  The contents of the cs2, ds and er registers are printed
in octal and symbolically with bits decoded.
The error was either unrecoverable, or a large number of retry attempts
(including offset positioning and drive recalibration) could not
recover the error.
.PP
\fBrk%d: write locked\fR.  The write protect switch was set on the drive
when a write was attempted.  The write operation is not recoverable.
.PP
\fBrk%d: not ready\fR.  The drive was spun down or off line when it was
accessed.  The i/o operation is not recoverable.
.PP
\fBrk%d: not ready (came back!)\fR.  The drive was not ready, but after
printing the message about being not ready (which takes a fraction
of a second) was ready.  The operation is recovered if no further
errors occur.
.PP
\fBrk%d%c: soft ecc sn%d\fR.  A recoverable ECC error occurred on the
specified sector in the specified disk partition. 
This happens normally
a few times a week.  If it happens more frequently than
this the sectors where the errors are occurring should be checked to see
if certain cylinders on the pack, spots on the carriage of the drive
or heads are indicated.
.PP
\fBhk%d: lost interrupt\fR.  A timer watching the controller detected
no interrupt for an extended period while an operation was outstanding.
This indicates a hardware or software failure.  There is currently a
hardware/software problem with spinning down drives while they are
being accessed which causes this error to occur.
The error causes a UNIBUS reset, and retry of the pending operations.
If the controller continues to lose interrupts, this error will recur
a few seconds later.
.SH BUGS
In raw I/O
.I read
and
.IR write (2)
truncate file offsets to 512-byte block boundaries,
and
.I write
scribbles on the tail of incomplete blocks.
Thus,
in programs that are likely to access raw devices,
.I read, write
and
.IR lseek (2)
should always deal in 512-byte multiples.
.PP
DEC-standard error logging should be supported.
.PP
A program to analyze the logged error information (even in its
present reduced form) is needed.
.PP
The partition tables for the file systems should be read off of each
pack, as they are never quite what any single installation would prefer,
and this would make packs more portable.
.PP
The rk07 g partition size in rk.c disagrees with that in /etc/disktab.