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Received: from plains (3186@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by badlands.NoDak.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA107197 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 05:39:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 05:39:36 -0500 (CDT) From: John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu> X-Sender: jbauer@plains To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Zip drive info. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950825053353.9269B-100000@plains> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I don't have a Zip drive but I will have one soon. I couldent get the first 2k from a zip drive so I'll post how to do it. I'm sure many out there know but this may get faster results. This is the command. dd if=/dev/hda of=file.ext count=4 Some info so you know what this actually does. (I'm not trying to trash your boot sector now) dd stands for the command disk dump, data dump, dog dump. whichever you prefer. if is infile, which is your zip drive device. (It just hits me, does linux support zip drives yet?) of is outfile. where the data is dumped. count is number of blocks. 4 blocks... 2k. Hope this helps. John