Re: reading from devices in RAW mode

[Andrew Morton]

"Folkert van Heusden" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Maybe I should've sticked to google (altough it wasn't to helpfull this
> time) but
> in this mailinglist there are a lot of knowledgeable people, so here's my
> question:
> for my data-recovery tool I like to read sectors from devices in RAW mode.

	open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECT);

maybe?