Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Reverse mode - yeah, it really is important

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> In any event, not being able to copy starting at the back of the drive and 
> working forwards means that one is forced to binary search the drive by hand:

Not at all. You can, after the first error, mark the rest of the drive 
as non-trimmed. This will instruct ddrescue to read backwards one sector 
at a time, until a bad sector is found. See the section "Algorithm" in 
the manual.


Regards,
Antonio.