Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue: cannot open input file: No such file or directory

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Christian.

Christian Nelson wrote:
> It appears to me that ddrescue will only run if the drive is fully 
> recognized in Linux first.  Is that true?  What can I do to run ddrescue 
> successfully?  Thank you very much if you can help with this at all.

Ddrescue have access to the drives trough the kernel. So you are right; 
if the kernel does not fully recognize a drive, ddrescue can't read data 
from it.

If you can't make linux to recognize the drive, perhaps you could try to 
freeze it as David Burton suggests in the Freshmeat page for ddrescue.


Regards,
Antonio.