From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966943AbWKUJwu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:52:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966947AbWKUJwu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:52:50 -0500 Received: from mail.innomedia.soft.net ([164.164.79.130]:51628 "EHLO gateway.innomedia.soft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966943AbWKUJwu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:52:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4562CCB2.1030400@innomedia.soft.net> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:23:54 +0530 From: Dipti Ranjan Tarai User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: How to read/write from/to the HD with out kernel cashing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I am using fedora core -3 with kernel 2.6.10. I want to read/write a sector from/to the HD with out kernel caching. Basically my aim is to communicate directly with the ide drivers so that I can bypass the kernel cache. Please give some idea regarding this. Regards Dipti Ranjan Tarai