Re: [Bug-ddrescue] freezes

[Ian Oliver]

In article <address@hidden>, Ben chang 
wrote:
> ddrescue version: 1.2
> OS: gnu/linux ubuntu 8.04 i386

I didn't have much luck with Ubuntu and dying hard disks. All the 
udev/hal/automount stuff kept rattling the drive even without ddrescue 
doing anything, and while the machine didn't freeze for me, anything 
that tried to access the disk certainly did.

I booted Puppy Linux from a CD and this worked a treat. I built a 
recent (1.8?) ddrescue from source on my Ubuntu box and put this on the 
external USB HD that I was using for the recovered image, and it worked 
fine on Puppy.

Ian
P.S. I have the executable of ddrescue on a web server and can give you 
the link if you just want to wget it.