FWIW, as an admininstrator:
$ cd /dev
$ cat disk0
$ cat: disk0: Permission denied
$ sudo cat disk0
password:
{Tons of crap, maybe trying to cat my main hard drive was a mistake ;-)}
I'm running Tiger, so it seems (empirically) that one needs to be root
to even perform a read on the device (same for rdisk0). I can't
remember what it was like under Panther...
H.
On 10/18/05, Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 18/10/05, darpan kamboj <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi
> > How can I give the permissions to raw read the hard disk. I login the
> > system as system administrator.
>
> What do you mean by "system administrator"? Do you mean root?
>
> -- Finlay
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