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 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-29 08:30:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!peer1-sjc1.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CCD6708.AAD217CC@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reading raw disks (Windows) References: <3CCAC0DB.32090922@otelco.net> <3CCCAAB7.1AA28434@otelco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1020094133 66.75.151.160 (Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:28:53 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:28:53 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23222 Date: 2002-04-29T15:28:53+00:00 List-Id: "Frank J. Lhota" wrote: > It's possible, but you're in an area where MS failed miserably in the area > of portability. I think the likelyhood that you're going to write a program that does raw disk-IO to partitions that is portable between single-user Win95 systems and multi-user WinNT systems is pretty low. They don't even support the same sets of file systems and disk layouts. That you need different routines to access the raw sectors is probably way down on your list of portability problems. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. The 90/10 rule of toothpaste: the last 10% of the tube lasts as long as the first 90%.