Hi, After having used ddrescue a few times, I have found that in some cases that I get better results by killing the process and starting elsewhere on the disc, then returning to where the original process left of a bit later. I think this reduces the heat build up from very slow reads on a bad area, reducing degradation, and giving overall better results.
Would it be possible to build in a read algorithm option that could automatically do this. I have typically been switching between the start and 50% thru the disc/partition whenever the average read rate drops into the 1000's of bytes per second. I often find that going back to a bad area after as little as 60 seconds reduces or stops read errors form occurring. Any way, thanks for a great and powerful recovery tool. Regards -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Limited. Ph: 021 797 722 _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
