Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Suggestion to improve recovery rate during splitting phase.

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

kwb78 wrote:
> > There are no such areas. After trimming, all non-split areas are flanked 
> > by bad sectors, or else they would have been fully copied or trimmed out.
>
> That is interesting, because that is not what I am seeing with the drive I
> am working on at the moment.

Oops! You are right. In version 1.14 ddrescue stopped marking as 
bad-sector the first sector of a failed multi-sector read because the 
kernel seems to return a total failure if some of the sectors are indeed 
bad.

Now I have another interesting decision to make; should ddrescue try 
first the (possibly many) non-split areas adjacent to good areas, or the 
larger non-split areas flanked by bad sectors (if there is any)?


Regards,
Antonio.