dosread(1) [minix man page]

DOSREAD(1)						      General Commands Manual							DOSREAD(1)

NAME

       dosread - read a file from an MS-DOS diskette [IBM]

SYNOPSIS

       dosread [-a] drive file

OPTIONS

       -a     ASCII file

EXAMPLES

       dosread C g/adv >adv
			   # Read file g/adv from hard disk

       dosread -a A prog.c >x
			   # Read ASCII file prog.c from drive A

DESCRIPTION

       Dosread	reads  one MS-DOS file and writes it on standard output.  The file name must use slash, not backslash as a separator.  ASCII files
       have the final CTRL-Z stripped, and carriage return plus line feed are mapped to line feed only, the usual MINIX convention.  See dosdir on
       the use of single letter drive codes.

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HD(4)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							     HD(4)

NAME

       hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices

DESCRIPTION

       The  hd*  devices  are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode.  The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
       device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb.  The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and	the  slave
       hdd.

       General	IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
       partition on that physical drive.  The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive.  Partition numbers are assigned  in	the  order
       the  partitions	are  discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
       four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended.  Thus, the first  logi-
       cal  partition  will be hdX5.  Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported.	You can have at most 63 partitions
       on an IDE disk.

       For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on  the
       second one.

       They are typically created by:

	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
	      chown root:disk /dev/hd*

FILES

       /dev/hd*

SEE ALSO

       mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4)

Linux								    1992-12-17								     HD(4)