Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue/ubuntu not identifying disks

[Tom]

I have found that sometimes a disk does not show up in Ubuntu but
works perfectly using SystemRescueCd which is a gentoo live cd.
SystemRescueCd includes ddrescue.


http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Al Grant<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I thought when I discovered ddrescue that it would be somewhat of a pancea,
> and image anything I threw at it - I had after all heard very good things
> about it, I was in some respects glad to get away from windows.
>
> While I admit to still being in my early days of Ubuntu, I have discovered
> that two disks I have tried to image lately do not show up under a fsdisk
> -l, and accordingly I cant image in ddrescue.
>
> They do show sometimes in dmesg that they have been assigned sdc or
> whatever, but the rule seems to be if it dont show up in fdisk -l then it
> cant be imaged - or am I missing something?
>
> Anyone know any different?
>
> Cheers
>
> -AL
> PS: On these defective disks I have had excellent success with getdataback
> to get the files off, but of course getdata back doesnt do images.
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