First of all you should run the command again without the -n switch to let ddrescue finish it's job. Depending on the result you might want to add another run with retries (e.g. -r3).
Only after you get no more data out of the disk, you continue with the cdimage to retrieve the photos. Greetings Florian > Am 26.08.2016 um 08:49 schrieb [email protected]: > > Sorry to contact you this way. But I have racked my brain trying > desperately to imitate that I am as intelligent as you guys and I am > totally out of energy. > > I used ddrescue 1.19 to rescue a badly scratched CD containing photos of a > soldier who died recently. The family asked if I could retrieve images > from a damaged CD. I would be really excited to tell them I recovered the > photos using ddrescue on Linux Mint 18. The command was (as per your > manual's example): > > -------------------------------------------------- > ddrescue -n -b2048 /dev/cdrom cdimage mapfile > -------------------------------------------------- > > > Now, I am totally blown away as to the next step. First, I don't know if I > have anything to offer them. Here are the results: > > -------------------------------------------------- > rescued: 320307 kB, errsize: 18354 kB, errors: 279 > > Current status > rescued: 322701 kB, errsize: 15960 kB, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 338659 kB, errors: 273, average rate: 1251 B/s > opos: 338659 kB, run time: 31.88 m, successful read: 13 s ago > Finished > --------------------------------------------------- > > Second, I have searched for hours to figure out what to do with "cdimage". > I have the file on my hard drive. But nobody seems to be able to tell me > in stupid language how to turn "cdimage" into a photo CD. > > Please help. I am at the end of my rope. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ron Asselstine > D 'n R Computer Services > > > P.S. I am not charging these people anything to do this. They have > already paid a tremendous personal amount. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
