Re: [MiNT] dd - access to block device

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

V Pá, 30. 07. 2004 v 10:30, Frank Naumann píše:
> > So if I understand correctly, dd could be adapted the same way (although
> > this is a bit dangerous since the of/if-arguments can be files as well as
> > devices), or as a nicer solution we'd need a sort of blockdev.xdd for raw
> > access, which could then also be used for fsck and friends.
> 
> Yes, this would be much better.

/dev/hdX or /dev/sdX could be only a thin layer above XHDI, hopefully. 

Note that I won't put it in my TODO list as I stopped updating it when
its ever growing size prevented storing it on file system (we don't have
support for large files (>>2GB) in MiNT yet, do we? ;-)

Petr