Re: [OT]Raw Disk Support?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 09:21:45 EST

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On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 14:38, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> I guess first, will a Linux scsi driver let me read 768 byte sectors and second
> is there raw disk device support such that I can read these disks without a
> known filesystem type being on them?

Our raw drivers dont support non power of two sectors. You can extract
all the data itself using the scsi generic interface to send your own
SCSI READ_6 commands to the drive directly

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