On 17 Sep 2002, Mark C wrote: | On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 23:21, Patrick Mansfield wrote: | | > You should be able to run the equivalent: | > | > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=512 count=8 | | I done that and please find the output below:
So most (all?) of these don't work. Have you tried Rogier's 'seek' program yet? | sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled | sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 | I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 | unable to read partition table If sector 0 isn't readable, just use the secondpart instructions that Rogier posted. Start with a fairly large number (like he used, was it 0x10000 ?). If that works, use smaller values of the seek offset and try to find the smallest value that still works. The first sector with the smallest value that works _might_ be a master boot record/partition table with some useful info in it, or it might just be a boot record followed by a FAT filesystem, or something_else_who_knows_what. Anyway, if you can do that, you can post the data and I'll take a look at it. -- ~Randy "Linux is not a research project. Never was, never will be." -- Linus, 2002-09-02 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
