From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jul 30 09:57:16 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] dd - access to block device From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: References: <1091173025.5178.0.camel@joy.sophics> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1091173853.5185.3.camel@joy.sophics> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:50:53 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at sophics.cz Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i6U7v3GP010882 V Pá, 30. 07. 2004 v 09:44, Frank Naumann píše: > >> You have to write to the device itself, so indeed drive letters won't > >> work. > > > > Sometimes drive letters do work (mkfs, chkfs, fdisk?) > > Yes, because these tools are linked against the libIO that overwrite > open/write/seek and such things that catch these drive letters and go over > XHDI for raw access. didn't know about libIO. Is it able to passthrough things that don't look like a drive letter? Would it be possible to create kind of a 'rawdd' that way? Petr