Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage

[Matthew Dharm]

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The device may not actually have the beginning few sectors.  Use skip=3D to
try to read something from the middle of the media.

Yes, I actually have seen this before.  The firmware 'fakes' a partition
table on the first attempt to read one, but sector 0 really isn't there.

Matt

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:50:32PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
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> Mark C. Wrote:
>  >>> [root@stimpy dev]# dd if=3D/dev/sda of=3D/dev/null bs=3D1k count=3D1
>  >>> dd: reading `/dev/sda': Input/output error
>  >>> 0+0 records in
>  >>> 0+0 records out
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> Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
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> > |
> > | You might try just using dd to copy your card to disk with an offset =
of 25
> > | sectors, and see of you can mount the resulting image.
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> > This is a bit like what we (JE, David Brownell, and I) saw at
> > the USB plugfest in 1999.  We had a camera device that we
> > couldn't mount as a filesystem, but we could dd it.
> > When we did that and studied the dd-ed file, we could see a
> > FAT filesystem beginning after the first <N> blocks (but more than
> > 25 sectors IIRC -- more like after 50-100 KB, or maybe even more).
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> See the above form Mark's post. He tried to dd a 1K block
> and it failed. Granted, The first few blocks may need to be skipped,
> but right now he cannot even get the raw data out.
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> If we can get the data, we can use the loop device to mount it.
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> Any ideas to figure out the why the dd fails?
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> 	-Thomas
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