Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Installing ddrescue on Tiger

[Ariel]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Branimir Krstic wrote:

> I am running ddrescue now since Sunday evening, but it went thru only about 
> 400 MB, finding almost a half erroneous. Is there a way to speed the things 
> up, as ddrescue is supposed to be the swiftest among the dd utilities?

I'd need a little more info then that. For one, how big is your hd? Are 
all the errors in a bunch, or are they randomly scattered throughout the 
disk? If you are getting half of the disk errors, and they are random, you 
are unlikely to rescue anything.

The only hope is that all the errors are at the start of the disk and the 
rest of it is good. If that's the case then you want to try to find the 
good areas quickly, do that by using --input-position and guessing. Also 
try --no-split.

        -Ariel

PS. I cc'd the mailing list, since the author of this program would 
probably be better at helping you.