[Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue seems to stuck - any tricks to continue?

[Ferdinand Fuchs]

hello,

I'm using mac os x 10.4.7 with ddrescue 1.7 to rescue a 80gb 2.5"  
harddisk, that I connected via firewire.

on the hard disk should be 55gb of files, ddrescue copie 49749mb into  
the an image.

but now ddrescue seems to stuck:

About to copy an undefined number of Bytes from /dev/disk3s3 to / 
Volumes/300gb/copiedvolu.dmg
    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B
    Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
Hard block size: 512 bytes
Max_retries: 1
Direct: no    Sparse: no    Split: yes    Truncate: no

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued:    49833 MB,  errsize:   6888 kB,  errors:      75
Current status
rescued:    49840 MB,  errsize:  10291 kB,  current rate:        0 B/s
   ipos:    49850 MB,   errors:     100,    average rate:     3470 B/s
   opos:    49850 MB
Copying data...

after I startet ddrescue again I can see with the activity-led of the  
hard drive enclosure, that ddrescue is doing something, but the above  
mentioned data doesn't change and after approximately 10 minutes the  
activity-led goes off.

I read somewhere, that ddrescue tries automatically to use a reverse  
mode to start from the end of the hard disk, if it comes with the  
normal way to defective parts of the hard disk,

so I would like to now, is this now the maximum result I can achieve  
or are there any tricks I could try?

50GB of 55GB is a really good result, but unfortunately on the image- 
file my entourage email database has only 600mb, but it should be 2GB,  
so I would like to try more things.

I already tried this options:
--max-retries=1
-r1
but they didn't help.

thx!

regards,


ferdinand