Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 [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 dir

Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread Paul Reavis
Paul Reavis wrote: > > Urban Widmark wrote: > > > > ... but that would perhaps not be > > low enough for you so how about: > > int fd = open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY); > > > > and then: > > lseek() > > read() > > Oh ho! That's the best idea so far! Why don't we just skip all this JNI > nonsen

Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread Paul Reavis
Urban Widmark wrote: > > ... but that would perhaps not be > low enough for you so how about: > int fd = open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY); > > and then: > lseek() > read() Oh ho! That's the best idea so far! Why don't we just skip all this JNI nonsense and just open /dev/hda up as a java.io.Ra

Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread Urban Widmark
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 [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 dir

Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread david . atkinson
;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 f

Re: Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:40:52 +, [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 p

Low level disk access

1998-11-11 Thread david . atkinson
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