NAME

getgeombyname − get disk geometry by name

SYNOPSIS

#include <zdc/zdc.h>
#include <diskinfo.h>

struct geomtab ∗
getgeombyname(disktype)
char ∗disktype;

DESCRIPTION

getgeombyname takes a disk type name (e.g. m2333k) and returns a structure describing its geometry information.  All information is obtained from files in the directory /etc/diskinfo which end in the suffix .geom.  Each of these files contains the geometry information for one disk type.  See /usr/include/diskinfo.h for a description of the fields in struct geomtab.

SEE ALSO

diskinfo(5)

NOTES

This is a Sequent library routine.  To use it, specify the -lseq option to link with the Sequent library.  Since this is a Sequent extension, code using this routine may not be portable to other systems. 

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