Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 24 June 2012 13:22:29 maxim naumov wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> 
wrote:
> > Here is a quick analysis:
> >   ^^^^  LBA = 0x2FC2B95F00, COUNT=0x80 (64K)
> 
> IIRC, LBA is a sector index. how can it be 0x2FC2B95F00 if the whole
> HDD has 0xAEA87B30 sectors?

The LBA is 24-bit Big Endian and is stored directly in the 31 bytes command 
sent to the USB device., Try removing the 00 in the end. Maybe I added one 
byte too much.

> 
> > dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=512 iskip=205130391296 count=128
> 
> root at muxx:/home/muxx # dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=512
> skip=205130391296 count=128
> dd: /dev/da0: Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000318 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> (no errors in logs)
> 

--HPS