From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030768AbWKUKDA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:03:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030803AbWKUKDA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:03:00 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:28273 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030768AbWKUKC7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:02:59 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ayncHnswc82KPMeol9WXR9Pz7YJ3WI+MA1iGjBttW0u+liqjstrE5H6XmnqFlh4BeocAiaBvJkgcNANdfl4DIJ6I3enK6g1vQ5RSf8wK99fw1NrQMevhIhSROJ7rqJbsbBFbrO9sCHSh+AJztk/AQebfPsoXw1D5tjdi0EwP0ow= Message-ID: <4562CECB.5000107@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:02:51 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dipti Ranjan Tarai CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to read/write from/to the HD with out kernel cashing References: <4562CCB2.1030400@innomedia.soft.net> In-Reply-To: <4562CCB2.1030400@innomedia.soft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dipti Ranjan Tarai wrote: > Hi all, > I am using fedora core -3 with kernel 2.6.10. I want to read/write > a sector from/to the HD with out kernel caching. Basically my aim is to > communicate directly with the ide drivers so that I can bypass the > kernel cache. Please give some idea regarding this. man 2 open, then look for O_DIRECT. -- tejun