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

[Narcis Garcia]

Number of disk sectors could be specified to ddrescue?


On 05/02/16 17:25, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> 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.
> 
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