[clug] Memory Stick Intrigue

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I bought 4 memsticks from Dealextreme, (Hong Kong based)

On each were two files, one 1Gb the other 880 Mb

file reports the type as "data"
Hexeditor shows nothing interpretable
strings throws nothing intelligible.

As they were all the same files, I guess they may well just have been
test files dumped on the sticks.

I am quite happy with the above explanation, but wonder if there are
other explanations, chinese version of wikileaks! 

I have reformatted 2 of the memsticks and they are normal , but before
that, here is the output of fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdc1: 2002 MB, 2002223104 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1p1   ?      202429      499388   570754815+  72  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(202428, 43, 11)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(499387, 30, 51)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p2   ?       43884      547534   968014120   65  Novell
     Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings
     (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(43883, 52, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(547533, 14, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p3   ?      486442      990091   968014096   79  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(486441, 36, 30)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(990090, 59, 39)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p4   ?           1      946209  1818613248    d  Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(946208, 47, 30)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order




Yet another mystery



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