BIO(4) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual BIO(4)NAMEbio - block I/O ioctl tunnel pseudo-device
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device bio [count]
DESCRIPTION
The bio driver provides userland applications ioctl(2) access to devices
otherwise not found as /dev nodes. The /dev/bio device node operates by
delegating ioctl calls to a requested device driver. Only drivers which
have registered with the bio device can be accessed via this interface.
If count is given in the specification, and is greater than 0, a maximum
of one bio device is created.
The following device drivers register with bio for volume management:
ami(4) American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID PATA/SATA/SCSI
RAID controller
arc(4) Areca Technology Corporation SAS/SATA RAID
controller
cac(4) Compaq Smart ARRAY 2/3/4 SCSI RAID controller
ciss(4) Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
ips(4) IBM SATA/SCSI ServeRAID controller
mfi(4) LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID controller
mpi(4) LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface
mpii(4) LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface II
softraid(4) Software RAID
The following device drivers register with bio to provide enclosure
management:
safte(4) SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure
ses(4) SCSI Enclosure Services
The following ioctl calls apply to the bio device:
BIOCLOCATE Locate a named device and give back a cookie to the
application for subsequent ioctl calls. The cookie is
used to tunnel further ioctls to the right device.
BIOCINQ Retrieve number of volumes and physical disks for a
specific device.
BIOCDISK Retrieve detailed information for the specified
physical disk. Information returned can include
status, size, channel, target, lun, vendor name, serial
number and processor device (ses or safte).
BIOCVOL Retrieve detailed information for the specified volume.
Information returned can include status, size, RAID
level, number of disks, device name association (sd?)
and vendor name.
BIOCALARM Control the alarm beeper on the device. Supported
states are: disable alarm, enable alarm, silence alarm,
status and test alarm.
Note: These options might not be supported on all
hardware.
BIOCBLINK Blink an LED of the specified physical disk. Supported
blink states are: blink LED, unblink LED and blink
alarm LED.
Note: This option is only supported if the disk is
governed by ses(4) or safte(4) and the hardware
supports hardware blinking.
BIOCSETSTATE Alter the state of specified physical disk. Supported
states are: create hot-spare, online disk and offline
disk.
The following ioctl calls apply to the bio device only when talking to a
softraid(4) device:
BIOCCREATERAID Create a new volume or assemble an existing volume. The
volume will be attached as a system disk, if this
capability is supported by the volume discipline.
BIOCDELETERAID Remove system disk (if present) and disassemble the
softraid(4) volume.
BIOCDISCIPLINE Dispatch a discipline specific ioctl.
FILES
/dev/bio ioctl tunnel device
SEE ALSOioctl(2), softraid(4), bioctl(8)HISTORY
The bio driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2.
AUTHORS
The bio driver was written by Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@openbsd.org>. The
API was written by Marco Peereboom <marco@openbsd.org>.
OpenBSD 4.9 August 23, 2010 OpenBSD 4.9
