Re: [bug-ddrescue] Suggestion about error control

2020-06-15 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hi Scott, Scott Dwyer wrote: You only need five SCSI commands: Thank you very much for the detailed info. I'm sure it will be useful when I start implementing SCSI commands in ddrescue. (I have to implement a couple things in tarlz first). Best regards, Antonio.

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-13 Thread Bug reports for ddrescue, data recovery tool.
To be honest I don???t think I ever used any T10 documentation for the SCSI passthrough. It is needed for ATA passthrough, but there is plenty of other documentation and open source code for the SCSI passthrough, and I know for sure everything I found was free. And from what I can tell, the

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-03 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Scott Dwyer wrote: No, you have spent much time on an excellent program, the only one of its kind in the open source world, and I bet with little financial return. Thanks. You are right about the "little financial return". I have received about 20 euros in donations in the last three months.

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-02 Thread Scott Dwyer
On 6/2/2020 4:34 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: Scott Dwyer wrote: The tools mentioned are not open source and have paid versions for a reason. The authors have spent much time and effort working on them to make them special. Do you mean that I have not spent much time and effort working on

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-02 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Scott Dwyer wrote: The tools mentioned (hddsuperclone and DMDE) are not open source and have paid versions for a reason. The authors have spent much time and effort working on them to make them special. Do you mean that I have not spent much time and effort working on ddrescue to make it

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-02 Thread Bug reports for ddrescue, data recovery tool.
The tools mentioned (hddsuperclone and DMDE) are not open source and have paid versions for a reason. The authors have spent much time and effort working on them to make them special. Realizing the different error conditions of a device cannot be done with normal commands. Comparing those

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-01 Thread Cameron Andrews
I'd be happy with the non-portable for Linux for sure.  Those kinds of errors, and wait conditions would be good as well. Thanks. Kind Regards, Cameron Andrews North Brisbane Data Recovery On 2/6/20 9:06 am, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: Hello kickman. Thanks for your message and sorry for the

Re: Suggestion about error control

2020-06-01 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello kickman. Thanks for your message and sorry for the late answer. I have been very busy. anonymous wrote: The two last can recognize and distinguish the error codes got from the kernel after every read /write request. For example, when hddsuperclone detects the disk is offline (not ready)

Suggestion about error control

2020-05-01 Thread anonymous
Hello, Antonio and community! There are many different programs that can work with damaged disks. Among them there are: ddrescue, dmde, hddsuperclone. The two last can recognize and distinguish the error codes got from the kernel after every read /write request. For example, when hddsuperclone