15 Apr
2016
15 Apr
'16
12:40 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Yvan Janssens wrote:
Also, DD won't work on those disks; you'll
have to use sg_utils and use raw
SCSI commands to dump the disks. Linux DD uses the system calls to read
block devices, and interestingly enough, they only support multiples of
512b for sector size on that.
Dumping those disks isn't impossible, but you need the right tooling.
Yes, the tool is simply called 'sg_dd' and works just like 'dd'. You must
specify the right block size, though.
Christian