Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Newbie question -- how to copy longer before splitting after restarting?

[Ian Oliver]

In article <address@hidden>, Eric Stout 
wrote:
> To make that while a bit longer, I have installed it into an
> aluminum USB2 & Firewire enclosure and stored it in the fridge. 
> When I work with it, I move the bad drive in the enclosure into the
> freezer and access run RIP Linux and ddrescue from a notebook just
> outside the fridge.  In this way I can read 2 to 8 GB before the
> drive stops responding. 

I've had deeply mixed results when using ddrescue on disks connected 
via USB. I suspect that the chipsets/drivers/etc. haven't been written 
to handle errors correctly and ddrescue would often seem to cover data, 
but it would be the same data repeated over and over.

Ian