From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030804AbWKUKFn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:05:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030811AbWKUKFn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:05:43 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.196]:39487 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030804AbWKUKFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:05:42 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Uf28XoWEDiuBh88UFDjT0oIxiiSswWj5rE49ePdwVX0wNZiN+IfT+Y3FVn+kFlAOdAvPRgK5E2rQoWYeq+iuqEIyTihowOIsi6HKXyqParnsz7jy8pBSxWYacGWm6yfm5t8GDMX6auZ3wLBmiUoBkfGOqfcgRPgTgNQqFa7vBQI= Message-ID: <9a8748490611210205v7beea9aer7c511f2dd4dbf95a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:05:40 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Dipti Ranjan Tarai" Subject: Re: How to read/write from/to the HD with out kernel cashing Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4562CCB2.1030400@innomedia.soft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4562CCB2.1030400@innomedia.soft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21/11/06, Dipti Ranjan Tarai wrote: > 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. > Why wouldn't the (obsolete) RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) or (better) O_DIRECT work for you?? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html