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Re: lseek() fails to seek on /dev/fd0 ('\\.\A:')


On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:10:15PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> CV> Indeed. I would be interested in the trivial patch as well.
> 
> well, almost trivial ;-)
> It's not fully compatible with linux, as it doesn't allow seeking past
> the  end  of  media (i think this is ok), and, alas, for NT only :( (i
> don't  think  this  is ok, but i haven't found a way to get media size
> under w9x)

Did you try that even on raw partitions (\\.\X:)? From the MSDN:

"The IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY control code retrieves information
 about the physical disk's geometry"
 
so I assume it will only work for raw harddisks (\\.\physicaldriveN).

Corinna

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