Re: [Bug-ddrescue] DDRESCUE is flawed

[Paul L Daniels]

> 
> The main purpose of the first pass is to gather as much data that is 
> readable and to skip the error areas.
> 
> This does not happen and DDRESCUE spends hours on a small section
> rather than move to a new section. Obviously the code is INCORRECT !!!

        Try --skip-size=1M

        The default is 64K, but if you've got a large swathe of bad
        sectors it's naturally going to languish for a long time in
        them doing these smaller 64K jumps.  So try 1M, if not, try 1G

        There's no way of knowing where the bad zones are going to end,
        you cannot predict it.

Paul.