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tfm

Post subject: Using MHDD ADVLOG.BIN

Posted: April 19th, 2015, 17:38

Joined: March 24th, 2015, 23:25
Posts: 7
Location: Brazil

Hello,

What is real usage for ADVLOG.BIN created by MHDD? Each run for a 4TB generates a ADVLOG.BIN file nearly 500MB.

Also, how can I parse/explore this file, see its contents in a intelligible way ?

Thank you.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Using MHDD ADVLOG.BIN

Posted: April 19th, 2015, 19:49

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 14945
Location: Australia

http://real-world-systems.com/docs/MHDD_en_manual.html

It appears that the log file consists of groups of 16 bytes, and each group represents a 255-sector block. These 16-bytes are comprised of a the starting LBA of each block (0, 0xFF, 0x1FE, 0x2FD ...) plus the delay in milliseconds.

((4 TB) / (255 x 512 bytes)) x (16 bytes) = 467 MiB

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tfm

Post subject: Re: Using MHDD ADVLOG.BIN

Posted: April 22nd, 2015, 21:54

Joined: March 24th, 2015, 23:25
Posts: 7
Location: Brazil

Ok, agree. But has anyone actually opened such a bin file? What/how did you use for that?

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