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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote:

|
|
| Rogier Wolff wrote:
| > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
| >
| >>On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote:
| >>
| >>>I get the feeling it's not a true mass storage device.
| >>
| >>Sounds like it.
| >
| >
| > Nope. Sure does sound like it's a mass storage device. And it works
| > too.
| >
| > The kernel managed to read the partition table off it, and got
| > one valid partition: sda1.
|
| Accept that you cannot read data from the device. At all.
| Even dd fails. And the windows drivers work (using XP
| in vmware it think it was) correctly on this same device.

Really?  Rogier's 'seek.c' program looks quite feasible to me.
'dd' wasn't seeking beyond sectors, it was trying to read &
discard them.

-- 
~Randy
"Linux is not a research project. Never was, never will be."
  -- Linus, 2002-09-02

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