Re: Ada and Hardware

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <BiwK6.3562$po.600977@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx
says...
>I'm implementing basic routines for the management of the fs at the moment but
>i've been planning ahead and i've encountered a problem.  It is necessary to
>access the disk and write the fs to it.  I was wondering if anyone knew of any
>Ada packages or techniques for accessing the disk in such a raw manner?  I need
>a way to write and read via blocks, sectors, tracks etc on the floppy.  I'm
>developing on windows 98 via GNAT.

This is a system-programming question, not an Ada question. An Ada programmer
won't accomplish this much differently than a C programmer. You'd probably have
better luck asking your question in a Windows programming newsgroup.

Now if you get an answer, but don't know how to translate it to Ada, that's what
we're here for.

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