Subject: Re: Fast Disk Write Code
To: Bruce Martin <BruceM@cat.co.za>
From: I. Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/17/1999 12:05:39
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 05:21:41PM +0200, Bruce Martin wrote:
> I'm looking for a starting point with block disk writes. I
> have sd0b with info on, and I have made a 25 meg partition,
> sd0c, that is empty. As a start, all I want to so is take
> the first 20 megs on info on sd0b, dump them in RAM (I have
> 64MB RAM), and then dump the RAM contents to sd0c. Does
> anybody out there have any code snippets that would do that
> sort of thing e.g. code that dumps data from RAM to a
> certain partition?

Uhm...

the c partitions has the special meaning of "all disk". You should not use
it for anything else.

	-is