Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-12 Thread Stroller
On 11 Jan 2010, at 00:14, Valmor de Almeida wrote: ... Indeed I am using GNU ddrescue and the -n flag is supposed to expedite the recovery of data as posted in http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk The best solution - both faster and more efficient - seems to be Antonio Diaz's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Stroller
Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in plain text format? Stroller. On 10 Jan 2010, at 02:08, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Dale
This help? Should be plain text. Dale :-) :-) Stroller wrote: Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in plain text format? Stroller. On 10 Jan 2010, at 02:08, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Indeed I am using GNU ddrescue and the -n flag is supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in plain text format? Stroller. Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail without the html hot links. I am doing this from within

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in plain text format? Stroller. Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Jan 2010, at 21:28, Stroller wrote: On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote: ... I am doing this from within systemrescuecd using firefox and gmail. Don't know how to make it plain ascii otherwise. Hopefully just eliminating the html links will work. Stroller, is this what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in plain text format? Stroller. Here it goes. On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [snip] I just reread the above (from within systemrescuecd), which implies you may be stuck without another working system. Yes. I am afraid the text below will be confusing but will send anyway. Will be happy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it cannot read? That would explain the variable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-09, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: [snip] in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes improvements, but it operates differently. Comment. Another reason I

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue