Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Dealing with a disk that stops responding

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Olaf Buddenhagen wrote:
> (BTW, I noticed that the reverse flag doesn't seem to work at all in
> 1.20: it was always starting with a forwards pass, no matter what I
> tried; I had to go back to 1.19... Is that a known issue?)

I can't reproduce the problem:

  ddrescue -fR /dev/zero /dev/null
  GNU ddrescue 1.20
  [...]
  Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 1 (backwards)


What are the exact options you used?