On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:17 +0000, Mario Rossi wrote: > On 3/19/07, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can try. That will probably help figure out how to read the label. > > I'd prefer a copy of the entire disk, but that might be too large. If > > you can blank it out, then dd the disk and gzip the image, that would > > work. > > As promised, I've copied the first 48MB of the disk + 2M at the > beginning of each partition > > http://xoomer.alice.it/enodetti/ipod/ipod.sda.bz2 > http://xoomer.alice.it/enodetti/ipod/ipod.sda1.bz2 > http://xoomer.alice.it/enodetti/ipod/ipod.sda2.bz2 > > respectively from > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 > /dev/sda2 > > using > > dd if=/dev/sda of=ipod.sda bs=1M count=48 > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=ipod.sda1 bs=1M count=2 > dd if=/dev/sda2 of=ipod.sda2 bs=1M count=2 > > If you need a bigger file, I will need to find a different host. I've > tried with 64MB but I could not upload it. > The output of fdisk is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda > Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We don't yet have write support for non-512 byte sector sizes with the DOS disk label. We have read support. Write support has been written, but not tested. Will be soon, but I imagine that's the problem you're hitting. -- David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat / Westford, MA
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