Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Envelope-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <36F78B05.E5E4CF17@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:37:25 +0100 From: John Mullee Organization: Ex Machina Interactive Architects X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Serguei DACHIAN CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Again about physical disks. References: <1.5.4.32.19990323112345.00678700@lola.univ-lemans.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Serguei DACHIAN wrote: > > > P.S. Your readme say that some feateres are for NT only. Does it mean > > > that i will not be able to read /dev/fd0 and/or /dev/hda ??? > > Sorry, I haven't noticed, you're on a Win9X system. The used > So what finally these all means: is there no ANY way to read a physical > sector from a physical disk under CygWin on a Win9x system ??? This is a known 'feature' of w95; the article "PRB: DeviceIoControl Int 13h Does Not Support Hard Disks" describes the problem and presents the code for a workaround. It's *ugly* - you have to use 'flat thunks'. So the short answer is *yes*, you can read disk-blocks from cygwin-compiled code, but *no*, it's not easy, and you'll need to be significantly motivated.... john -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com