Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:20:42 RST
From: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru (-= ArkanoiD =-)
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To: wjackson AT powerup DOT com DOT au
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Subject: Re: ls
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nuqneH,

In message <199710132214 DOT CAA18248 AT pool1 DOT convey DOT ru> "Wayne" writes:
>  Trust me when I say this, echo'ing a file to \dev\dsk0$ or the equivalent
> will write over the first disk.  I was fooling around with OS/2 a few years
> back and kept getting errors on \dev\dsk0$ so I "type"ed \dev\dsk0$ and read
> from the floppy, tried the same under DOS and my first fixed disk was read.
> And it is a 2 way street also, so I found out.

What was the DOS version? I tried that with OD 7.01, MS 5.0 and IBM 7.0 and
it did not work. I do even remember i've seen a reference on add-on character
device driver that provides raw disk io feature some years ago - afair it
was a part of some commercial package and i could not find it (although i
liked the idea).

> Under normal circumstances the \dev directory is not even hidden, it does
> not exist.  Run diskedit on the drive and you will see nothing but run msd
> you will see the devices as they reside on what could be described as a
> virtual drive.

Yep (i used mft instead - it can do the same job) - but there are no
special files for block devices; only character ones.. Block devices are
listed by number and seem to have no corresponding files.

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