Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

2005-10-11 Thread Claudio Grondi
Thank you for your reply, even if currently not that interesting for me because after the first CD writer for IDE were available I stopped to use SCSI and didn't come back to it since then. Does the Python open() command not work the same way for SCSI drives as for IDE or USB drives (I can't try

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

2005-10-11 Thread sam
The main use of my SCSI routines,is that by using the SCSIPASSTHROUGH layer under Windows gives the user absolute control of the storage device. For example copying data from and IDE drive to a SCSI drive becomes transparent using SCSI commands. I.e Logical block 0 remains consistant. I had an PHD

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

2005-10-10 Thread Claudio Grondi
Thank you Jeff very much for your quick reply. It saved me really much time of digging in the wrong direction. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I took the advice from this web page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q100027/ Ok, I had found this page myself during Googling,

Re: Wanted: Python module allowing direct access to raw sectors ofharddrives (MFT, boot sector, etc.) in MS Windows

2005-10-10 Thread sam
The following site contains my routines to access information from the Microsoft SCSIPASSTHROUGH layer under windows. These routines allow you to access the storage devices mounted under windows using SCSI commands. The dll that I provide will work with Python 2.3