From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29e0b02504ecfa9c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-27 08:16:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CCAC0DB.32090922@otelco.net> From: Larry Hazel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,x-ns11F8K63r3NhQ,x-ns2r2e09OnmPe2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Reading raw disks (Windows) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:16:43 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.230 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1019920598 66.0.32.230 (Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:16:38 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:16:38 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23173 Date: 2002-04-27T10:16:43-05:00 List-Id: Is there any way to open a raw disk for reading under Windows? I tried opening "Z:" with sequential_io, but got raised ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.USE_ERROR : s-fileio.adb:833 Using GNAT 3.14p. By the way, shouldn't that be Ada.IO_EXCEPTIONS.USE_ERROR? We chide everyone else about proper capitalization of Ada. Larry