I should of said USB drive I just think of all USB drives as "flash"
drives... it is a Lacie external drive
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ah, ok.
>
> if it's a flash drive, the data may be toast. depends on how many dead
> cells there are.
>
> best of luck to you.
>
> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>
>> No the issue is a drive that has roughly 10 years of work on it died
>> and I was asked to see if it is readable/reviable... I already know
>> the format of the MBR but I need to also read the code to see if
>> something is wakey (I have written MBR's {with inline assemble in GCC)
>> for an OS I am working on but never disambled one)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> umm, dude....
>>>
>>> you writing a boot sector virus or something?
>>>
>>> funny though....
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot-boot0.html
>>>
>>> given your skill and goals are questionable, you can find it in the
>>> source
>>> tree yourself.
>>>
>>> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Aryeh Friedman
>>>> <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dirk Engling <erdge...@erdgeist.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 27.08.10 04:17, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a disassembler in the base system if not what is a good
>>>>>>> option from ports?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try objdump -d,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> erdgeist
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> flosoft# objdump -d /dev/da0
>>>>> objdump: Warning: '/dev/da0' is not an ordinary file
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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