A reverse pass effectively disables the drive's read-ahead caching. Data
recovery professionals will tell you that this can be (or is?) a good thing.
-Franc
At 04:52 AM 6/07/14, you wrote:
I have released a features patch for ddrescue that I have been working on.
It is available on my ddrutility page on sourceforge. Its purpose is to
add a few new options for more control over certain things.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddrutility/files/ddrescue%20patches/
New options are:
--no-reverse-pass do not switch direction for each pass (for
those that want it, as it really does not help any and is mostly useless
in my opinion)
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