Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Help rescuing my 500GB disk

[Florian Sedivy]

Hi Andrej!

Let me just ask, why you always use option -A (—try-again)? 

I would only use that on a single run under very special circumstances, and almost always while still using -n (—no-split). If it is useful in your case depends a lot of what exactly happens, when your drive becomes unresponsive. Option -A might be necessary, but could also be harmful, by forcing ddrescue to repeat trying known bad areas instead of moving on to the untried rest of the disk. 

Greetings, 
Florian