From: Dan S. <da...@sh...> - 2004-01-28 05:53:05
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:18:24AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > mcm...@ju... said: > > Well yes, I want to be able to read real disk images either from a raw > > device, yes we could stick in a special case ioctl to check for a real > > device and read its geometry but ick it is easier to specify it, or > > from a dd'ed image file of a hard disk which would not work even with > > the ioctl, so ubd1C102H15S16 is better from my view :) > > OK, build it and maybe people will come :-) Yep. I work with many different simulation environments and this is a *really* useful option. Apart from anything else real sectors are a kind of semi-universal file format between simulation environments. But there is also the case where you dd from a running system for purposes such as planning preventative maintenance, disaster recovery, forensics, security testing to mention a few. Not too many of the open source simulators do this but many of the closed source ones do. -- Dan Shearer da...@sh... |