Messages in this thread | | | From | "Folkert van Heusden" <> | Subject | RE: reading from devices in RAW mode | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:09:13 +0100 |
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> > I thought that I could do that at least for floppy, not sure about > > harddisk (RLL through ACSI interface). > Well, you can probably do it with ST-506 interface hard disk, because > the data that goes in to that is more or less directly fed from the > head-amp, which is partly why it was so sensitive to cable length.
Those were the times :-)
> The closest you could probably get with any modern device would be > "read sector foo, and return data even if ECC appears to have > failed".
And that's exactly what I want! (for the situations where the bad data starts, say, halfway the sector)
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