Re: [MiNT] dd - access to block device

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Frank Naumann wrote:

> > Sometimes drive letters do work (mkfs, chkfs, fdisk?)

Ah yes, so it does..

> Yes, because these tools are linked against the libIO that overwrite
> open/write/seek and such things that catch these drive letters and go over
> XHDI for raw access.

So if I understand correctly, dd could be adapted the same way (although
this is a bit dangerous since the of/if-arguments can be files as well as
devices), or as a nicer solution we'd need a sort of blockdev.xdd for raw
access, which could then also be used for fsck and friends.

Maurits.