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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c72b93d85d765332 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-10 06:37:13 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:36:44 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:36:44 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7463 Date: 2001-05-10T13:36:44+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com