Help accessing hard drive

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From: Darren New
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 16:58

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Can some kind soul answer me a few questions about
hard drive device driver access?  I am looking to read
and write a hard drive at the sector level, much as
DiskEd, DiskSalv, DiskCopy, etc do. I would like it
to be independent of the driver, but I can live with
SCSI-oriented stuff (about which I know nothing).
I need to know basically how to inhibit, read, and
write the drive, and I need to know how to find out
the number of sectors on the partition and the sector
number of the root of the partition (given the dh0:
type name). Can somebody either point me to the
source of some program that does some of this (I
have most fishes thru 196, amicus thru 26, and
about 9 cucug disks) or tell me what manual to
look in, and maybe what section? Are the drivers
designed to respond to the same things as 
trackdisk.device offers? (I assume so, since FFS
does work from floppies, altho with problems.)
Any help, especially in the area of finding
the info about the partition, would be helpful.
I have the RKMs for 1.1 (the all-white covers).
Thanks in advance!!!    -- Darren

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