Hi All, I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it (couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows:
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usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: FUJIFILM Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
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Mount fails:
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$ mount /dev/sda
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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and dmesg then shows:
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FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
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This is what fdisk shows:
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# fdisk /dev/sda
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 131 MB, 131072000 bytes
5 heads, 50 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 250 * 512 = 128000 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
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Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last photo,
that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor?
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Regards,
Mick
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