I'm working on a troublesome hard drive, which unfortunately keeps "disappearing" while it's being read. I get the error:
ddrescue: Input file disappeared: No such file or directory But after a short while the drive reappears, and I can try again. Right now I'm working around the issue on the command line, and I'm slowly rescuing more data like this: $ while true; do ddrescue /dev/sdb sdb.dd sdb.log; sleep 10; done but if ddrescue could notice that the input file disappeared, and restart again when it reappears, I think that would be an improvement. An option could be added for a maximum timeout period to wait before giving up. It could also do some checks to make sure the reappeared device isn't a different device that someone just plugged in. -Ketil _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
