Lpc2000

Hi Sean,
you're absolutely right !
If I were to suggest the people that is going to read the log data 
from this SD card, that they install Linux (or some other 
derivative), they would just look at me, and ask, WHAT ?
So, only option is to use Windows (which I absolutely don't mind, 
having 7 WinXP PC's in the house here :-)
I just realized that CreateFile can do all the magic, direct disk 
access and pretty much anything else !
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/fileio/fs/createfile.asp)

So this is the route I will take, definately,

thanks for the heads-up Sean

Carsten


--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Sean <embeddedrelated@w...> wrote:
>
> 
> I get really tired of everyone bashing windows all the time... :)  
Isn't it 
> interesting how 4x the number of bugs are found in linux than 
windows?  But 
> I digress...
> 
> Check out WinHex, it can directly access any fixed media device at 
a raw level.
> 
> Alternatively, if you aren't afraid of a little programming, you 
can easily 
> open any raw device and seek to any sector and read/write to your 
hearts 
> content with only a few lines of standard C code.  Windows has 
just as 
> robust an addressing system as linux does under the /dev/ 
filesystem, if 
> anything windows has even more, do a google search on the \\?\ 
prefix.  No 
> fooling of windows is necessary to make this happen.
> 
> --