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a class to memory map a disk - Skaperen - Nov-29-2018
i have fuzzy memory of a class that would let me expose each sector of a disk. what i want to do is write a program to update selected bytes of a drive's partition table. it would let you get sectors in the form of a bytearray. then if the bytearray was modified, it would write it back to disk. it would be nice work with whole sectors. if not, i might have to do this in C.
RE: a class to memory map a disk - Larz60+ - Nov-29-2018
You won't get me to use it.
I have written disk access programs by cylinder, sector, etc. and was weary of my own code.
It took a long time for gparted to be accepted.
RE: a class to memory map a disk - Skaperen - Dec-10-2018
was gparted written in Python? or are you saying that people are generally weary of things that reach down to bare metal? should i quit listening to nordic dark metal music?
RE: a class to memory map a disk - Gribouillis - Dec-10-2018
Gparted is written in C++. You could perhaps translate it to python as a proof of pythonic mastership and virtuosity.
RE: a class to memory map a disk - Larz60+ - Dec-10-2018
Quote:was gparted written in Python? or are you saying that people are generally weary of things that reach down to bare metal? should i quit listening to nordic dark metal musicNot saying I wouldn't accept it, but only after it had been around for a long time without bugs.
Can't advise on nordic dark metal music, but I wouldn't listen to that either.