> What one wants is to remap access to sector 0 to sector 1,
> and leave all other sectors alone. Thus, if someone asks
> for sectors 0 1 2 3 4, she should get sectors 1 1 2 3 4.
No, because then you can't write to the real first sector.
Assuming translation is good, 1 0 2 3 4 is a better order.
Then "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=999" will get
rid of all this crap. Otherwise, killing it is difficult.
> So yes, the problem is known, but I do not see a clean solution,
> unless the solution is to rip out all this EZ drive nonsense.
Linux should still be able to read the partition table.
The translation can go.
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