Re: [SLUG] Reading blocks from SD card

From: ronan (ronan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2007 - 09:36:09 EDT


> dmesg shows the device. If it is fomrated correctly with FAT it mounts the
> device automatically after it is plugged in (and shows up as "/media/disk",
> though the initial message is "system:/media/sdc1"). When I do "dd" I get
> less than one block (512) and it isn't anything that is on the card.
>

You can specify a block size and block count with dd:

   dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=myimage bs=512 count=1024

I don't know if that would put you on the road to solving your problem.

--ronan
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