Re: ddrescue reads from a non-existent device and reports read errors.

[Franc Zabkar]

This model belongs to Seagate's Rosewood family. Even if you manage to 
read a stubborn sector, you may find that the "recovered" data is bogus. 
These "moldy" sectors are a well known problem in the data recovery 
community.

https://forum.acelab.eu.com/viewtopic.php?t=10837

On 11/26/2025 10:18 AM, franz Linter wrote:

The disk, model ST1000LM048-2E7172, shows unrecoverable errors in the 
log.