Re: Assessing USB Mass Storage devices

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 16:12, Thomas Dodd wrote:

> Save all the pictures first.
> Back up the device with 'dd if=/dev/sda of=camara.img'
> You can always look through the image with and editor.
> Or write it back to the camera (swap if/of in dd command)
> To restore the previous state.

dd only gives the error:

[root@stimpy dev]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1
dd: reading `/dev/sda': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out


> In windows try fdisk on the device.
> and look for clues.

Haven't tried that yet.

 
> Try 'mkfs.vfat /dev/sda' and see it you can
> put a different filesystem on it. Then see if
> the camera can access it, or if it reformats
> it back to the other.

mm, fdks cannot access it, so it seems doubtfull

> In linux, run fdisk /dev/sda.
> create a partition sda1 and try the above on it.

Fails to read it.

Mark

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