Hi there,
Thanks a lot for this great soft, ddrescue !
I've been able to retrieve about 99% of the precious data contained by a
very faulty HDD.
A short anecdote : the drive capacity was 400Go ; retrieving all the
data was taking ages, so I looked at the code to check whether I could
improve it and realized it used the "open" function to access the
peripheral. "/Ah ah/", I thought, "/why not use fopen, which is said to
be faster ?/". Certainly a bad idea ! I don't know what happened during
the recompilation, but in spite of the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS flag my
recompiled ddrescue was limited to files having a size less than 2^32
bytes. Which I realized only after I had totally wasted the previously
generated rescue journal :-(
Morality : I'll think twice next time I fancy I could be smarter than
the software author (because most often I won't !)
Thanks again (I've just made a donation through paypal),
Hervé
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