Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Hey. Here is a much needed improvement request

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello,

Asbjørn Holland Christensen wrote:
> The problem is that at some point the disk fails so that the system 
> cannot see the disk any more so i have to shutdown the computer 
> completely to regain access to the disk to continue. The improvment that 
> i request is for ddrescue to stop when a disk fails like this insted of 
> continuing marking sectors as tryed runing quickly over the rest of the 
> disk...

Ddrescue stops instantly if the drive disappears from /dev. If it simply 
returns a read error, ddrescue can't know if the drive has failed fatally.

Try this and, if needed, increment the argument to -e after each reboot:
ddrescue -e0 -RT /dev/[source] /dev/[target] rescue.log


Best regards,
Antonio.