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KVRN Kiran Kumar

2004-01-28, 9:35 pm

Hi Everybody,

Can anybody help me in resolving this issue?

I need to open the hard disk in Solaris. First of all, I don't know
what is the string for that. I have

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0

But, if I use

open("/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0",O_RDONLY) it returns -1.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
KVRN Kiran Kumar.
Ulrich Eckhardt

2004-01-28, 9:35 pm

KVRN Kiran Kumar wrote:
quote:

> open("/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0",O_RDONLY) it returns -1.



RTFM, check errno.

Uli

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http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/
Fletcher Glenn

2004-01-30, 4:34 am



KVRN Kiran Kumar wrote:
quote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> Can anybody help me in resolving this issue?
>
> I need to open the hard disk in Solaris. First of all, I don't know
> what is the string for that. I have
>
> /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0
>
> But, if I use
>
> open("/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0",O_RDONLY) it returns -1.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> KVRN Kiran Kumar.



Generally, you have to be root to open a raw device.

--

Fletcher Glenn

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