.th HS IV 5/31/77 .sh NAME hs \*- RS03/RS04 fixed-head disk .sh DESCRIPTION The files .it "rs0 ... rs7" refer to RS03 disk drives 0 through 7. The files .it "rs10 ... rs17" refer to RS04 disk drives 0 through 7. The RS03 drives are each 1024 blocks long and the RS04 drives are 2048 blocks long. .s3 The .it rs 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 HS files begin with .it rrs. 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/rs*, /dev/rrs*