[Cialug] BMKL?

[Aaron Porter]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Colin Burnett <cmlburnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> So my Creative Zen mp3 player died so I ripped it apart.  The 5GB
> seagate drive has a CF 2 form factor so when I popped it in fdisk
> doesn't recognize it.  A 2 block dd dump shows the first four chars
> are BMKL.  The best I found was Berkeley Multimedia Kernel Library but
> that seems like an odd thing to start a drive volume with.

Ahh -- I misread your intent. To salvage the CF what you'll probably
need to do is create an MSDOS type Partition Table. This would
probably be easiest with parted:

parted /dev/sd<letter>
> mklabel msdos
> mkpart
> q