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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Reading Unpartitoned Raw Disks w/ Gnat and SunOS 5.6
Date: 1999/06/08
Date: 1999-06-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7jhot5$6cj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7jh0j7$18ha@r02n01.cac.psu.edu

In article <7jh0j7$18ha@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>,
  JSharer@psu.edu (Jack W. Sharer) wrote:
> I have two disks that were striped with data by others.  These
disks are "raw";
> no partitions, no file structure.  I would like to process the
data on them
> using Gnat Ada on a Sun Sparc running SunOS 5.6.  How do I
read this data?
>
> The disks show in the tree as /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
>                                        . . .         s1
>                                        . . .         ...
>                                        . . .         s7
> and
>                                  /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s0
>                                        . . .         s1
>                                        . . .         ...
>                                        . . .         s7
>
> Thanks for  your help, Jack Sharer, JSharer@psu.edu


This is not even vaguely an Ada question, but rather an
operating system question, what devices and drivers do you
have to read these disks, and how are the drivers accessed?
Once these questions are answered, programming the necessary
binding in Ada is likely trivial.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-06-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-07  0:00 Reading Unpartitoned Raw Disks w/ Gnat and SunOS 5.6 Jack W. Sharer
1999-06-08  0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-06-08  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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