Can python 'read disk sectors' like/via linux:dd ?

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OP wrote:
}in order to justify learning another language I'd first need to be
}convinced that python could easily do the following:-
}
}ReadSectors2Bufr(hdx, StartSectr, SectrCnt, Bufr); <-- like linux:dd
}PrintDecOf4Bytes(Offset, Bufr); <-- and also 1 and 2 byte values
}OverWriteBufr(Offset, Bufr, Byte);
}WriteBufr2Sectors ..... <-- like linux: dd
}
}I guess one would normally use bash, but I'd rather invest effort
}in python if it can do this.
}
}Thanks for any info.
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Are you attempting to create a boot block virus?

Firstly, if you asked me advice on where to buy some goats-milk,
I'd answer in the context of where YOU stand now [especially
since you told me], NOT form where I'm standing.

For several reasons I need many partitions on my IDEs.
The one lost the chain of logical partitions at hdx26.
It's not linux, but that's not important.
The most convenient tool for ME [at my present status] to
read/write blocks is linux: dd; and to see/edit is linux:mc.
This involves a lot of tiring manual work.
I previously read of a contributor who automated the steps
of linux:fdisk [iterating through size guesses] inside of a bash
script, to recover his lost [last] partition.
I'm not keen on investing time to become more fluent in Bash,
which could drive dd.
I have other reasons to invest time in Python.
If Pyton could 'drive' dd, I would try it.

My normal OS is oberon S3, which can do better than the
C-code above, but I want to work at the highest level.

Understand ?

Thanks,

== Chris Glur.

 

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OP wrote:
}in order to justify learning another language I'd first need to be
}convinced that python could easily do the following:-
}
}ReadSectors2Bufr(hdx, StartSectr, SectrCnt, Bufr); <-- like linux:dd
}PrintDecOf4Bytes(Offset, Bufr); <-- and also 1 and 2 byte values
}OverWriteBufr(Offset, Bufr, Byte);
}WriteBufr2Sectors ..... <-- like linux: dd
}
}I guess one would normally use bash, but I'd rather invest effort
}in python if it can do this.
}
}Thanks for any info.
-----------

Are you attempting to create a boot block virus?

Firstly, if you asked me advice on where to buy some goats-milk,
I'd answer in the context of where YOU stand now [especially
since you told me], NOT form where I'm standing.

For several reasons I need many partitions on my IDEs.
The one lost the chain of logical partitions at hdx26.
It's not linux, but that's not important.
The most convenient tool for ME [at my present status] to
read/write blocks is linux: dd; and to see/edit is linux:mc.
This involves a lot of tiring manual work.
I previously read of a contributor who automated the steps
of linux:fdisk [iterating through size guesses] inside of a bash
script, to recover his lost [last] partition.
I'm not keen on investing time to become more fluent in Bash,
which could drive dd.
I have other reasons to invest time in Python.
If Pyton could 'drive' dd, I would try it.

My normal OS is oberon S3, which can do better than the
C-code above, but I want to work at the highest level.

Understand ?

Yes, I do.

But, there is a good tool to repair partition tables.
Google for 'gpart'.