SECTOR READER sr [-o] s1 [s2 ...] This will read one or more sectors directly from the floppy disk (this is different from reading the cached sector files in your ~/sectors directory). This command uses dd to read the raw contents of the drive and hexdump to display it. You can achieve the same effect by using the following command: dd if=/floppy bs=512 count=1 skip=sector_number | hexdump -C -o Print to stdout instead of a pager