Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue/ubuntu not identifying disks

[Al Grant]

 Excellent tip -I will try it.

Thanks


Tom-331 wrote:
> 
> I have found that sometimes a disk does not show up in Ubuntu but
> works perfectly using SystemRescueCd which is a gentoo live cd.
> SystemRescueCd includes ddrescue.
> 
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Al Grant<address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I thought when I discovered ddrescue that it would be somewhat of a
>> pancea,
>> and image anything I threw at it - I had after all heard very good things
>> about it, I was in some respects glad to get away from windows.
>>
>> While I admit to still being in my early days of Ubuntu, I have
>> discovered
>> that two disks I have tried to image lately do not show up under a fsdisk
>> -l, and accordingly I cant image in ddrescue.
>>
>> They do show sometimes in dmesg that they have been assigned sdc or
>> whatever, but the rule seems to be if it dont show up in fdisk -l then it
>> cant be imaged - or am I missing something?
>>
>> Anyone know any different?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> -AL
>> PS: On these defective disks I have had excellent success with
>> getdataback
>> to get the files off, but of course getdata back doesnt do images.
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