Re: accessing raw disk.

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:48:00 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Mon, 31 May 1999 01:30:59 -0700, Lamar Williams <lamar@custom-sd.com>
said:

> How does one access a raw disk ?
> I see the block device name "/dev/hda?", what are the character device
> names ?

Go to ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/raw-io/ and pick up the
latest diffs. Read the README, build a new kernel, set up /dev and
start running raw character devices.

--Stephen

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