./diskdump to bootpartition.bin takes forever

[jderosa3]

I have a 30gb 5th gen iPod that was mac formatted... I used disk utility in os x to format it to the MS-DOS file system...

I then proceeded to do the following command:

./diskdump -r /dev/disk2 bootpartition.bin

when i typed this in terminal i get the following message:

diskdump v0.1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2005
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Reading partition table...
Part    Type   Start Sector    End Sector    Size (MB)
   0    0x0b             63      58605119       28615
[INFO] Seeking to sector 63
[WARN] Seek error - reading 63 sectors instead
[INFO] Writing 58605057 sectors to output file

it then starts writing the file and it takes forever it seems - is it suppost to make that file the whole size of the hard drive (in my case 28615 MB) it took it close to 18 hours to transfer this amount of data...

how long should this process take? or do i need to restore my ipod on the pc - then try this again...

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[jderosa3]

figured it out.... thanks