On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:03:09PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>> Anyway, a dd of the first couple of sectors from the CF card should
>>> show something recognizable, all I want to know is if data transfers
>>> actually work.
>>
>> Why do things small? =)
>>
>> I did a 'dd if=/dev/wd0c of=cf.img bs=512 count=1024
>>
>> It got 323584 bytes into it and through an error, which it claimed it
>> corrected, but it quit writing to the file.
>
> Did anything useful end up in the file? There should be a few
> recognizable strings in the first few sectors, at least if the card
> contains a few files.

It's got some jpgs from a digital camera on it, here's the top of an
xxd dump:

0000000: 6669 6374 6974 696f 7573 0000 0000 0000  fictitious......
0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000080: 8256 4557 0005 0000 4869 7461 6368 6920  .VEW....Hitachi
0000090: 5858 2e56 2e33 2e33 6669 6374 6974 696f  XX.V.3.3fictitio
00000a0: 7573 0000 0000 0000 0000 0200 0000 0020  us.............
00000b0: 0000 0008 0000 03d2 0000 0100 0003 d200  .......Ò......Ò.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org