/proc/ide/hda/identify

[dang]

Hello,

I hope someone can help

I'm trying to copy the identify file from /proc/ide/hda/ but it's read only. I have tried everything to copy this file to my /mnt/floppy

Using sudo nano identify will read the file but it does not correctly save the file to floppy. I need an exact copy to floppy

Thank you for any help it would be much appreciated

Dan

[GNU-Fan]

Please be more specific.

[dang]

More specific? Hmmmm


I want to copy /proc/ide/hda/identify to removable storage which is /mnt/floppy at the moment

AM I on the right track?

[GNU-Fan]

It is not clear to me what you mean by "copy".
Do you want to create a file with the content of the identity's output on the floppy or do you wan't to copy a block of data directly to the medium.

[dang]

Hi,

I want to create a file with the raw content of the identify process stored in
/proc/ide/hda/identify and this created raw file to be sent to a mounted device in file format (in this case a floppy disk of high density made by Sony which is mounted at /mnt/floppy)

many thanks

[hazel]

This should work if you do it as root (you don't have access otherwise). I just copied the proc/ide/hda/identify file in my system to another place and it worked ok.

[dang]

was strange problem

So I did

cat proc/ide/hda identify > identify

while in my home director. I think I was trying to save the file in the /proc directory which is read only

Thanks all that answered