The IOBlockStorageDevice Interface
The upper layers of the storage driver stack communicate with the transport driver through a class that is derived from the IOBlockStorageDevice interface. The IOBlockStorageDevice presents a view of the storage device as a linear array of logical blocks that can be either read from or written to by the caller. A logical block is the minimum number of bytes that the disk is capable of reading or writing, and a disk operation must operate on a multiple of blocks. Depending on the disk, the block size will be anywhere from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes. All operations performed by the IOBlockStorageDevice class work on a contiguous range of disk blocks.
The methods that must be implemented by a subclass of the IOBlockStorageDevice ...
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