Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:17:49 -0500 | From | Thomas Dodd <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-usb-users] Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage |
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Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:13:13PM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> When dd is told to skip a certain number of input blocks it doesn't > seek past them, but reads them and then discards them. Thus if you're > not supposed to read sectors 1-100 then this will not work.
Fair enough. I, and the others though it did a seek.
> Try the following program: <snip> > with the command: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=firstpart > > (Get the partition table) > > (seek 0x100000;dd of=secondpart) < /dev/sda > > Get everything beyond 1Mb. If this works, then we have to figure out > how low we can make the "0x100000" number to get all of the data. > > Hypothesis: The partition table specifies that the data starts > on sector 200, and they didn't implement sectors 1-199.....
Where did the sector 200 come from? Something in the dmesg output from before? (I don't really grok SCSI or USB at that level :( )
> Cheap basterds.
Agree:)
-Thomas
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