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. ;-) -- "It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape." Chief Justice Joseph Story Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org