From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:19:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:19:41 -0400 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:1431 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:19:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3CBA9B27.1020904@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:19:35 +0200 From: Enrico BRAVIN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Direct access to IDE disk from kernel modules Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Is there a way to directly dump a buffer on an IDE disk from inside a kernel module without goig trough user space? I have written a driver for a frame grabber and would like be able to dump the frames real time directly to a dedicated IDE disk. My frames are already in a DMAble buffer. Please cc my directly