NAME

ld — logical disk driver

SYNOPSIS

ld* at aac? unit ?
ld* at amr? unit ?
ld* at ataraid? vendtype ? unit ?
ld* at cac? unit ?
ld* at icp? unit ?
ld* at iop? tid ?
ld* at mlx? unit ?
ld* at nvme? nsid ?
ld* at sdmmc?
ld* at twa? unit ?
ld* at twe? unit ?
ld* at virtio?

DESCRIPTION

The ld driver provides support for simple block devices, usually presented by a disk array controller.

FILES

/dev/ldup

block mode disk unit u, partition p

/dev/rldup

raw mode disk unit u, partition p

SEE ALSO

aac(4), amr(4), cac(4), icp(4), intro(4), iop(4), mlx(4), nvme(4), sdmmc(4), twa(4), twe(4), virtio(4)

HISTORY

The ld driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.3.

BUGS

The capacity and geometry of units as accessed through the ld driver may be different than when accessed through some other medium (e.g. SCSI).