Josh Lange wrote:
The next logical step after recovering data is to attempt to wipe the drive,
Sorry, but I can't see the logic here. Certainly ddrescue can be modified to do what you want, even if modifying it is not as simple as you seem to imply, but I can't see why this is "the next logical step".
Ddrescue is designed to ignore read errors, but it quits as soon as it finds a write error. What you want is exactly the opposite of this.
Moreover, I think there exist some disk wipping programs. Perhaps someone could tell me if none of them is able to wipe a drive with I/O errors. In this case, perhaps it would be worth to modify ddrescue.
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