----- Original Message ----- > From: "Antonio Diaz Diaz" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]
> The changes in this version improve by orders of magnitude the automatic > recovery of a drive with a dead head. For example, all the recoverable data > in a 1 TB drive with one ot its 4 heads dead can now be recovered after just > 283 read errors instead of the 3_782_794 read errors needed by ddrescue > 1.29. (ddrescue 1.29 with the options '--cpass=1,2 --skip-size=32MiB' can > recover the data after 880 read errors, but the point is that an > unexperienced user can now achieve results that only an expert could achieve > with the previous version of ddrescue). Four orders of magnitude plus, which is an improvement you rarely see in program optimization; congratulations on that achievement, sir! It's especially important since if the drive's dying on you anyway, the less you flog it, the more you'll get. I gotta go check whether Partition Magic is bundling the tool these days... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
