----- "Asbjørn Holland Christensen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I love you work with this program it has saved my as!# on a few > orcations. Currently i am trying to restore my friends external > disk... I usaly starts with > ddrescue -n /dev/[source] /dev/[target] rescue.log > then i do ddrescue -dr1 /dev/[source] /dev/[target] rescue.log > That has allways solved my problems... But in this case. > The problem is that at some point the disk fails so that the system > cannot see the disk any more so i have to shutdown the computer > completely to regain access to the disk to continue. The improvment > that i request is for ddrescue to stop when a disk fails like this insted > of continuing marking sectors as tryed runing quickly over the rest of > the disk... > > If there is a way to tell ddrescue to stop on total disk failure then > i havent found it. If not then i don't hope it is to much truble to > implament...
I'll bet that's a *Seagate* disc... In fact, there is a way to get the behaviour you seek, as I needed it too, for the same reasons: use -e0; this wlil cause ddrescue to stop on the first error it sees. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
