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From: clyde@hitech.ht.oz (Clyde Smith-Stubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Raw Disk Access
Message-ID: <279@hitech.ht.oz>
Date: 18 Jul 89 11:55:12 GMT
References: <10192@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: HI-TECH Software, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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From article <10192@dasys1.UUCP>, by eddjp@dasys1.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi):
> I am going to be placing my Oracle database file into a raw partition
> on my disk. The partition is currently used as a physical DOS partition
> which is D: under vpix. What is the device name for that raw device under
> xenix 2.3 ??
> 

I don't have the manual here right now (its at work) but if you look
in the HW section of the Xenix Manual (Installation and Admin volume
I think) under HD(HW) it lists minor device numbers for all the
disk partitions etc. You can either reference it as the DOS partition
(/dev/hd0d I think) or via partition number. If you already have it
marked as a dos parition then /dev/hd0d should do it. Do a strings /dev/hd0d
and you should get stuff recognizable as the boot sector of the DOS
partition.

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