On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Rik Bobbaers wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2005 16:07, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Clearly the stick is broken. It does think it is a CD drive. > > > > You might be able to dump its contents by using dd: > > > > dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=1M count=128 of=/some_file... > > > > If that works, you could attach the file to the loop driver and mount the > > data. However the stick itself probably isn't usable any more. > > well... that didnt work, it does absolutely nothing when i try to read or > write from /dev/scd0 > > is there another way to get information from the stick? load some other > modules, dump the physical contents (that i can play with it's partition > table maybe) or modify something in usb.handmap or so, to make it possible to > dump the chipcontents? > > the data still has to be there... i just need to find a way to read its > bits/bytes!, no matter what the stick says. i'm thinking very lowlevel > even ;) > > i don't like giving up (not until i've disassembled the piece of cr*p ;)) to > its most basic components! :) > > anyone???
Didn't you say that the stick was still working under Windows? Just plug it into a computer running Windows and copy everything off it. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
