On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:21:54AM -0800, Kiran Kumar wrote: |Hello all of you, | I would like to know how can I read a specific |portion of the hard disk. A specific cylinder, sector |etc. Take a look around here: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/DiskandDiscDrives/ -- Daniele. "I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place." Richard Stallman -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/