Thanks Janina, I thought it was called rawfdcmd. My bad. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: possible sollution > Do a Google search for rawfd. > > > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hey Erik. Isn't this what dd does? You also need to image all the bad sectors as well, this would mean stripping out any crc checking. I've heard of rawfdcmd, but couldn't find it. Anyone know where I can get the sources or compiled binaries for rawfdcmd? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Erik Heil <eheil at rcn.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:27 PM > > Subject: Re: possible sollution > > > > > > > Hey Igor, > > > What you may want to look at is just doing a dump of the disk, byte by byte. > > > What I'm thinking of is a utility that uses /dev/fd0 or another mount point > > > as input and then will write the results to standard output. Sort of like a > > > bin or raw image in other words. Such a utility would not be hard at all to > > > construct. Problem is, I'll have to find the time to write it. Anyone > > > wanna work on this project? Ether e-mail Igor igueths at attbi.com or me at > > > eheil at rcn.com. > > > --Erik > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:34 PM > > > Subject: possible sollution > > > > > > > > > Hi all. I know I posted and suggested to take this off-list, but I thought I > > > would get it out there anyway. What we ultimately need is a utility that > > > would create bin images, because you want to preserve disk integrity. > > > Teledisk doesn't work, because it seems to just duplicate the files, and it > > > won't duplicate the bad sectors. It terminates with a data crc error. > > > Sollution: Create bin image of entire auth disk, use a utlity similar to > > > rawrite under Linux to write the disk. My e-mail address is > > > igueths at attbi.com if anyone wants to write me privately on this. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
