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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:50:37 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Folkert van Heusden" <folkert@vanheusden.com>
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Subject: Re: reading from devices in RAW mode
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"Folkert van Heusden" <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe I should've sticked to google (altough it wasn't to helpfull this
> time) but
> in this mailinglist there are a lot of knowledgeable people, so here's my
> question:
> for my data-recovery tool I like to read sectors from devices in RAW mode.

	open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECT);

maybe?
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