On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Rik Bobbaers wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2005 16:07, you 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. > > if it's broken then why does it still work in windows? (showing original data)
I don't know. I don't know how Windows works. > plus: > i tried the dd thing, but... it just does nothing, and it's not even killable > (not even with SIGKILL) the only way to stop the dd, is remove the usb > stick... Well, if the stick works under Windows, then transfer all the files off it onto a Windows machine and then transfer the files to your Linux computer. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
