I found the metadata on the last sector of the disk, but I don't know how to decode it and figure out whether it matches the format that dmraid is expecting for pdc...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo cfdisk -Ps /dev/sda
Partition Table for /dev/sda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 64259 63 64260 Dell Utility (DE) None
2 Primary 64260 70702064 0 70637805 HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot
3 Primary 70702065 312496379 0 241794315 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None
5 Logical 70702065 91168874 63 20466810 HPFS/NTFS (07) None
6 Logical 91168875 91184939 63 16065 Linux (83) None
7 Logical 91184940 95393969 63 4209030 Linux swap / So (82) None
8 Logical 95393970 136359719 63 40965750 Linux (83) None
Logical 136359720 312496379 0 176136660 Free Space None
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=myfile skip=312496379
3621+0 records in
3621+0 records out
1853952 bytes (1.9 MB) copied, 0.108353 seconds, 17.1 MB/s
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/$ cat myfile | hexdump -C > sector.txt
I found the metadata on the last sector of the disk, but I don't know how to decode it and figure out whether it matches the format that dmraid is expecting for pdc...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo cfdisk -Ps /dev/sda
Partition Table for /dev/sda
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------
1 Primary 0 64259 63 64260 Dell Utility (DE) None
2 Primary 64260 70702064 0 70637805 HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot
3 Primary 70702065 312496379 0 241794315 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None
5 Logical 70702065 91168874 63 20466810 HPFS/NTFS (07) None
6 Logical 91168875 91184939 63 16065 Linux (83) None
7 Logical 91184940 95393969 63 4209030 Linux swap / So (82) None
8 Logical 95393970 136359719 63 40965750 Linux (83) None
Logical 136359720 312496379 0 176136660 Free Space None
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=myfile skip=312496379
3621+0 records in
3621+0 records out
1853952 bytes (1.9 MB) copied, 0.108353 seconds, 17.1 MB/s
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/$ cat myfile | hexdump -C > sector.txt