Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:41:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:41:41 -0400 Received: from pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.53.121]:47121 "EHLO blueyonder.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:41:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Problems accessing USB Mass Storage From: Mark C To: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-7) Date: 17 Sep 2002 20:46:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1032291993.1276.12.camel@stimpy.angelnet.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 32 On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 19:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > 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 blocks (but more than > 25 sectors IIRC -- more like after 50-100 KB, or maybe even more). Sorry to sound a bit bewildered, but would be the next best thing for me to do on this?, I have also been advised by Jonathan Corbet to use dd to copy your card to disk with an offset of 25 looking through the info and man pages for dd, I can find no mention of offset at all, the next best thing I could find was the command option 'skip' Sorry to sound abit overwhelmed. Mark -- --- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/