From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no>
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: <7jioug$svn1@ftp.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7jh0j7$18ha@r02n01.cac.psu.edu
Jack W. Sharer wrote in message <7jh0j7$18ha@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>...
>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
You probably need to read up on the read() system call. That should give you a
clue.
I'm sure you could also use streams to read the disks.
The striping is something you will have to work out for yourself.
Greetings,
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1999-06-07 0:00 Reading Unpartitoned Raw Disks w/ Gnat and SunOS 5.6 Jack W. Sharer
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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