Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Is ddrescue actually accessing my failing drive?

[Paul L Daniels]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:33:42 +0100
Jerome <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> ddrescue -d -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb /media/sdd1/rescue.logfile

        The basic core operation to try start out with would be
        something as follows;

        ddrescue -v -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb logfile

        *PERSONALLY* I prefer to always write the destination as a file
        on a filesystem so as to prevent potential "oops" events where
        you accidentally transpose the device names and blitz the data
        drive, ie;

        ddrescue -v -f /dev/sda dying.img logfile.log 

        (assuming your current path is on a mounted filesystem that has
        enough space to hold the full dying drive image)

        Adding -P can be useful to see if you're getting valid data too

        If you can open another terminal session, run a ...

                tail -f /var/log/syslog

        so you can watch what the system is trying to do.

        CHECK also that the drive you're trying to recover is actually
        being seen and having a device name assigned to it, believe me
        in recoveries that in itself is one of the major hurdles at
        least overcome (right now I've got 3 drives in recovery
        machines which are having a very hard time even getting that
        far).

Good luck.


Paul.



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