Hello!
Sometimes drive letters do work (mkfs, chkfs, fdisk?)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.didn't know about libIO. Is it able to passthrough things that don't look like a drive letter?
Sure, it pass through anything to original open/read/write that don't belong to the special handled drive letters.
Would it be possible to create kind of a 'rawdd' that way?
Yes, but you need to check that you cover all calls that dd use. You only need to link the library against dd, it automatically overwrite the open/read/write/seek system calls.
Just take a look into freemint/tools/IO/. Regards, Frank -- ATARI FALCON 060 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------------------- http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/ e-Mail: fnaumann@freemint.de