From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hp40F-0006oq-8E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 15:04:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4IF35eo005439; Fri, 18 May 2007 15:03:05 GMT Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4IEwOGg031463 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:58:24 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4IEwMWc004919 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 16:58:23 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:30:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705181411.23476.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070518164818.ab91cf1a.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20070518164818.ab91cf1a.hilse@web.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705181730.56074.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 7998fd11-404b-472f-ae54-1e1881b610d1 X-Archives-Hash: 059cb70be39f9dbfd09aba08493b3d76 On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive > lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes, > 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid > master boot record magic number (0x55aa). This MBR doesn't contain > anything, so there's no partition table, either. It also might be a > part of a FAT file system's boot sector (the end-of-sector marker > bytes). >[cut] I did not know about the meaning of the asterisk...so your explanation does make more sense than mine. Thanks for clearing up things. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list