Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie

[Matt Boge]

Yikes... I guess I spoke too soon.  12 hours ago I was encouraged by the speed 
pickup (ipos:38152 MiB), but now we have slowed to a crawl (ipos: 39548 MiB).

Don't get me wrong... the rescue rate is still wonderful (39475 rescued), but 
I'm a little worried about the drive itself.  I understand that the more 
errors, the longer it takes, but should I begin to consider restarting the 
process and doing the fix you mentioned to ignore the bad sectors and restart 
to grab the good data first and then go back and let it churn?

Also, I was reading somewhere that using the utility hdparam to turn off DMA 
might help... any opinions on this?

Thanks,
Matt

----- Original Message ----
From: Matt Boge <address@hidden>
To: Ariel <address@hidden>
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Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 8:51:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie


Thanks Ariel!  You have been a lot of help and I really appreciate it.

The log file is being saved to the floppy that I had ddrescue on... looks like 
there is plenty of room and I can hear it accessing and writing to it every 
little bit.

At least I'm encouraged now... the speed did pick up a bit (I'm now on 
ipos:38152 MiB) and the success rate it great (you're right... I'll be ecstatic 
if it holds up!)

I'm going to look over your previous post in some more detail and probably get 
back with some more questions.

Thanks again.
- Matt

----- Original Message ----
From: Ariel <address@hidden>
To: Matt Boge <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 6:25:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie


On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Matt Boge wrote:

> Small correction, it had been running about 12 hours when I posted 
> before... now, about 20 hours since starting here is the status:

> Current status 
> rescued: 29716 MiB,   errsize: 37764 KiB,   current rate: 3584 KiB/s
>   ipos: 29753 MiB,    errors:   802,       average rate:  476 KiB/s
>   opos: 29753 MiB

Looks normal. As of the data it tried so far, 29753MiB, it rescued 
29716MiB, and didn't rescue 37764KiB, for a success rate of 99.87%. That's 
quite good.

If the entire hard disk works out that way, be happy!

Remember to save the logfile every once in a while like I mentioned.

Maybe you have a USB key you can use? If you can, stop ddrescue move the 
logfile to the USB key, and restart it - telling ddrescue where the 
logfile is. It will continue where it left off.

Or maybe don't touch it, hopefully the computer won't crash.

    -Ariel


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