Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-10 Thread charles colbourn
Apologies - I posted this in the wrong place (support requests instead of the user mailing list): Hi, I'm trying to retrieve data from my girlfriends broken A5000. I did a raw bit copy of the IDE drive to a file (using some DOS utility - the linux kernel was throwing 'lost interrupt' errors whe

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-15 Thread charles colbourn
Subject: Re: Trying to read a raw image file Date: Friday 14 July 2006 09:47 > So I guess the image you've got may have corruptions. :-( I don't mind a little data corruption, as long as I can read the bulk of the data from the image. >980 * 2 * 17 * 128 == 4,264,960 B == 4,165 KiB. That's qu

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-15 Thread charles colbourn
Hi Ralph, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. On Saturday 15 July 2006 11:30, you wrote: > That still looks odd. Literally. Given it should have a whole number > of sectors, and sectors always have an even number of bytes, it should > be an even number of bytes long. It's 167,401.73828125

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-15 Thread charles colbourn
Hi Ralph, I have Hugo aplenty: /temp> tr -c Hugo \\n Hi Charles, > > > arcem-1.00> od -c HardImage1|head > > 000 \0 \0 \0 \0 | 213 343 352 354 \f | 352 020 361 237 345 > > 020 020 361 237 345 020 361 237 345 237 \f 340 352 004 220 375 345 > > I don't recognise that. If it's an

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-16 Thread charles colbourn
> For your Hugos above... > >361361 104 > 0361 128 >498859 124 > 0859 148 >314 1173 46 > 0 1173 70 >314 1487 80 > 0 1487 104 >314 1801 132 > 0 1801 156 >314 2115 156 >

Fwd: Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-16 Thread charles colbourn
(and again, remembering to cc the mailing list) > If this is BASIC then it appears either the FTP wasn't in binary mode, > or an attempt to check or undo FTP translation with Perl failed. Is the > original, produced by the DOS program, file available? Having hastily chucked a relative out of the

Re: Fwd: Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-16 Thread charles colbourn
> > It's also a whole number of 256 byte sectors, 167,440. And a whole > number of KiB, 41,860. > Ah, but it's a lot more consistent. It's that program again. And the > two Hugos are consistently at offsets 188 and 214 into the 256 byte > sector. > > I'd have thought you'd have had some Hugo out

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-22 Thread charles colbourn
Hi Ralph, Sorry about the silence - I work away during the week, with limited access to my email account. I had to hack around with the acorn-fdisk source a little, but I managed to get it compiled in the end. It reports the following: Disk ../IMAGE.000: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders Un

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-22 Thread charles colbourn
Hi, as requested, here's the extended fdisk output: Disk ../IMAGE.000: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End BlocksId System ../IMAGE.000100 8442080 100 Filecore ../IMAGE.000

Re: Trying to read a raw image file

2006-07-24 Thread charles colbourn
Hi Ralph, here's the output from the commands you sent. cheers, Charles. adfs: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. ADFS-fs error (device loop0): adfs_checkmap: crosscheck != 0xff Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c01d