manipulate global state.
</para>
</sect1>
+
<sect1 id="ref-dbus-block-devices">
<title>The /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/* objects</title>
<para>
interface.
</para>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="ref-dbus-drives">
+ <title>The /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/* objects</title>
+ <para>
+ Objects with object paths starting with
+ <literal>/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/</literal>
+ all represent <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_drive">disk drives</ulink>,
+ typically physical disk drives.
+ Such objects implement the
+ <link linkend="gdbus-interface-org-freedesktop-UDisks2-Drive.top_of_page">org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive</link>
+ D-Bus interface and may optionally implement other D-Bus interfaces such as
+ <link linkend="gdbus-interface-org-freedesktop-UDisks2-Drive-Ata.top_of_page">org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata</link> depending on the drive in question.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A drive object should not to be confused with
+ <link linkend="ref-dbus-block-devices">block device</link>
+ objects (which are used for low-level block devices the OS
+ knows about). For example, if <filename>/dev/sda</filename>
+ and <filename>/dev/sdb</filename> are block devices for two
+ paths to the same drive, there will be only drive object but
+ two block device objects.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="udisks-std-options">
<title>The <parameter>options</parameter> parameter</title>
<para>