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[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2007/09/27 20:22 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 and
>> the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data I
>> should be able to do:

>> dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=156301440 count=1 bs=512

> Dd is just a fancy copy program. It does not format the data it 
> transfers.

The desired sectors are beyond the last full cylinder on disk. Not being
within any filesystem, ordinary file viewers wouldn't be able to find them
even if part of a file. As dmraid data, I didn't expect them to be within any
file anyway. Formatting is a non-issue.

> Look at the "od" command (literally, "octal dump"), which, despite its 
> name, can produce decimal, octal and / or hexadecimal output of 8-, 16- 
> and 32-bit entities from the data stream it reads.

mc is all the file viewer I need to find a string "hpt37", no special
formatting required. ;-)
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