I won't charge for the entertainment value, and I wont give up my
daytime job. (Although I have considered joining a circus as a juggler!)
I was actually implying that I would use JNI and write the interface in
C. Hence the "While this is not directly a Java question...".
Does anybody know of any suitable library functions, code, for lowlevel
HD access ?
Thankyou and Good Night!! (Insert fanfare here)
Dave Atkinson
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:40:52 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> >While this is not directly a Java question does anybody know of any
> >library functions etc which will provide low level disk access to
> >harddisks. i.e sector access etc.
> >
> >I am looking at writing a Java class for providing direct access to a
> >dedicated harddisk so that I can avoid some of the overhead of Java
and
> >normal filesystem based disk access.
>
> Sorry, but when I read this I laughed a bit...
>
> In any reasonable filesystem (ext2 on Linux, HPFS on OS/2, etc) you
> get very good performance - and if you are controlling this from Java,
> going directly to the hard drive just seems a bit, well, funny.
>
> I do not know of any libraries for Java that provide low-level disk
> access. Using JNI (Native Methods) you could write those routes in
> another language (C is the easiest) and then use them from Java.
>
> Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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>
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