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SubjectRe: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c)
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:59:19AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > If there was a more low-level access to the device, it should be done
> > there, but /dev/hda is the lowest level accessible from userland.
>
> No, there is inb/outb and /dev/mem

Yes, but you can't do that cleanly. You need the IDE driver not to do
anything else at the same time ... It's OK if you want to kill the
system, but not OK if you want to actually do something like a firmware
upgrade.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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