Introduction
| UNIX System Administration |
Chapter 9: Adding a Disk
by Ying
Zhao, Andrej Cedilnik
June 10, 1999
Disk geometry
This picture shows the internal architecture of a hard disk and its associated terminology.
Device entry
/dev/hd? IDE
hard disk / on CD-ROM (where ? is device name)
/dev/sd? SCSI
hard disk / on CD-ROM (where ? is device name)
Format
The formatting process writes address information and timing marks on the platters to delineate each sector.