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From: | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-ddrescue] how to rescue floppy disks? |
Date: | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:06:05 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050905 |
fctk86 wrote:
i'm using ddrescue-1.7 in order to backup lots of old 3.5" floppy disks and i'd like to make the process as efficient as possible.
In my system the fastest settings when reading from error free discs with ddrescue-1.8 are "-b1024" for 5 1/4" 360k floppies and "--direct" for 3.5" 1.44M. (All other values set to default ones).
In case of read errors it may be faster to set --cluster-size to a smaller value, the number of sectors in a track for example.
But of course, your system may behave differently. Doing some testing won't hurt.
i'm asking because the info manual says a little different thing:
I'll clarify the manual to differentiate between 360k and 1.44M floppies. Regards, Antonio.
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