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absread()

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badari

badari

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Mar 9, 2001
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Hi,
I want to read a specified sector on a disk with C function absread(); But the compiler says it is not defined. I understood that it is dos only function that is why it is not working on windows compiler Borland C++ v5.5.
Can any body please tell me how to work with this or are there any other functions / classes in C++ for this functionality. The task is to read/ write at a specified place ( Sector) ignoring the logical structure of the disk.
 
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This may be a problem of the OS.
With unix or NT it is not possible to access physical sectors on disk in usermode. You have to switch to kernelmode. That means you have to write a driver and include it into OS.


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