Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddresacue going slowly - fixes?

[Al Grant]

I can confirm the findings of others - dont rescue to ntfs mounted drives
with ntfs-3g.

-Al


David Liana wrote:
> 
> You may want to try another program called teskdisk.  It will scan your
> drive and guess at the partitions.  It can re-write your partition table.
> Again, ymmv.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Grant" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:33:58 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddresacue going slowly - fixes?
> 
> 
> Well it appears it was just going slowly through a bad part of the disk =
> it
> has completed.
> 
> I do however have another query - i have a disk with errors - its doesnt
> show up in fdisk -l but fsdisk -l shows it as sdb. 
> 
> unrecognised partition table type
> no partitions found
> read input/output error - cannot read sector 0
> 
> Anything else I can try other than ddrescue -vn?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -Al
> 
> 
> 
> Al Grant wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, I had installed ddrescue via the apt-get command which I didnt
>> know
>> installed a old version. Have downloaded and installed the latest verion
>> which I had thought cured the problem, but infact when it gets to roughly
>> 10g it slows down again.
>> 
>> -Al
>> 
>> 
>> Al Grant wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to run ddrescue on a disk with a few bad sectors. Evidently
>>> it has not encountered them yet as errors is still 0, but ddrescue is
>>> going very slowly:
>>> 
>>> The data rate is averaging 43000B/S.
>>> 
>>> I have tried -d - which is an invlid switch.
>>> 
>>> I have tried -c 64 which didnt seem to help much.
>>> 
>>> I am currently running it wiht sudo ddrescue -n -c 64 /dev/sdc
>>> /storage/test testlog 
>>> 
>>> I am also running it from a USB-IDE bridge and imaging to a disk
>>> attached
>>> to a PCI SATA controller card with disk attached..not sure if this migh
>>> tbe effecting speed?
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> -Al
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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