Re: [NTLK] reading Newton memory cards on a computer

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 14:14:18 PST


On Mar 18, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Thomas Isenbarger wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 15:00, Sean Riddle wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure one could do this with dd, a tool which just
>> manipulates bytes. It's good for exact backups and stuff. Dealing with
>> things on the file-level is a whole other kettle of worms.
>
> so, do you think I could use the dd program in Terminal to copy a
> card's contents into a file on my laptop? this would be great for a
> backup!
>
Doesn't dd assume you can read a file ?
Which means the file system on the card needs to be mounted and that
won't happen.

The way I understand it is the card is formatted with a file system
that you can't mount to do anything with in a laptop, etc.

You'd need a way to read the raw device if you can even access it

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