From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:09 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust51.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.51]:17399 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:32:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [OT]Raw Disk Support? From: Alan Cox To: markh@compro.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3D945F48.5DC9D233@compro.net> References: <3D945F48.5DC9D233@compro.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 27 Sep 2002 15:21:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1033136505.16040.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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