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"Mayank Vasa" <mvasa@confluencenetworks.com> wrote:
> I am quite new to rawio and am experimenting with with its usage. My test
> environment is Redhat 7.0, kernel version 2.2.16-22 having an external fibre
> channel drive having 2 disks (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1)
>
> All I am trying to do is to write and read to & from the disk using a raw
> device. Externally I did a "raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdb1" and then I wrote a
> small program to do the read/write.

[snip]

Raw devices need to meet the alignment requirements of the
device they are bound to; in the case of most disk this
will be 512 bytes. You need to take this into account for:
- the buffer you give to the read() and write() calls
- the 'size' given to read() and write() should be a
multiple of 512
- the SEEK_SET 'offset' given to lseek() should be a
multiple of 512. Note you have a 2 G limit here.
You can use _llseek() to get around this.

A small program that just reads from a raw device (or the
corresponding block device which should give the same
result) attached.

If you were binding a raw device to a cdrom device then
the BLKSIZE would need to be 2048 bytes (in most cases).

Doug Gilbert
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define BLKSIZE 512
#define BLKS2READ 1

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd, k;
unsigned char buff[BLKSIZE * (BLKS2READ + 1)]; // allow extra for alignment
unsigned char * arbp; // aligned read buffer ptr
long block_addr = 0;

arbp = (char *)(((unsigned long)buff + (BLKSIZE - 1)) & (~(BLKSIZE - 1)));

fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
exit (1);
}
if ((lseek(fd, block_addr * BLKSIZE, SEEK_SET)) < 0){
perror("lseek"); // problem if 2nd arg > 2G
exit (1);
}
if ((read(fd, arbp, BLKSIZE * BLKS2READ)) < 0) {
perror("read");
exit(1);
}