Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Handling drives that have broken partition table?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Paul,

Paul L Daniels wrote:
> I often get drives that will show up as a device (ie, /dev/sdc)
> including the model number of the drive, but because linux tries to
> load the partition table of the drive when it detects it, it results in
> a mess and subsequently you cannot access it via ddrescue.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to tell linux not to load the partition
> table, or treat the drive as a raw binary device

I do not have an answer to your question, but I think that if a device 
(e.g., /dev/sdc) can't be accessed because of the data it contains, then 
this is a bug in linux.


Best regards,
Antonio.