Note about "scan hdd" program: this program uses the sysfs functions to read the size of the HDD. If your Linux setup does not have this, the program will most probably fail. If that is the case, you may want to replace the "filesize" variable with the actual size of your HDD in bytes.
Also, the program currently tries to read from "/dev/sda" for the analysis. So, please make sure that your OS drive is NOT "/dev/sda". If you want to scan another drive, simply replace the string on line 51 to that of your actual HDD you want to scan.
Next version will provide some parameters for which device to scan.
OK, so the next phase in the project is to start doing some comparisons between different units' first few bytes of the HDD. The next version of the program will have an option to do a data dump to a file based on a size parameter.
You can also use the "dd" command in Linux to achieve the same goal.
Based on the postings, we can start doing some research on where the differences come and if there is a common thread.
Last edited by HanSooloo; 04-05-2007 at 10:35 PM.
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