Programming to direct hardware

Question

Hello All,

I have a question regarding to connect to direct hardware.

Is it possible to link to usb drive directly without using the system.io.

Thanks.

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Planit Canada CRM Online

Answer 1

What do you mean by "directly"? You want to open whole usb drive as a single file?

If so, you can try to open something like "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0" (though MSDN says, that it is not supported)

Answer 2

I would like to connect to the usb drive by the physical address and not by using the System.IO

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Planit Canada CRM Online

Answer 3

If you want to do it in F# it is easier to use .NET runtime to access it.

If you have to use WinAPI for lower level access you could use .NET interop library to invoke WinAPI functions.

Or you can create COM C++ component and use it from .NET using COM interop

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Petr