Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue outfile

[Florian Sedivy]

First of all you should run the command again without the -n switch to let 
ddrescue finish it's job. Depending on the result you might want to add another 
run with retries (e.g. -r3). 

Only after you get no more data out of the disk, you continue with the cdimage 
to retrieve the photos. 

Greetings
Florian 

> Am 26.08.2016 um 08:49 schrieb address@hidden:
> 
> Sorry to contact you this way. But I have racked my brain trying
> desperately to imitate that I am as intelligent as you guys and I am
> totally out of energy.
> 
> I used ddrescue 1.19 to rescue a badly scratched CD containing photos of a
> soldier who died recently. The family asked if I could retrieve images
> from a damaged CD. I would be really excited to tell them I recovered the
> photos using ddrescue on Linux Mint 18. The command was (as per your
> manual's example):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> ddrescue -n -b2048 /dev/cdrom cdimage mapfile
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Now, I am totally blown away as to the next step. First, I don't know if I
> have anything to offer them. Here are the results:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> rescued:   320307 kB,  errsize:  18354 kB,  errors:     279
> 
> Current status
> rescued:   322701 kB,  errsize:  15960 kB,  current rate:        0 B/s
>   ipos:   338659 kB,   errors:     273,    average rate:     1251 B/s
>   opos:   338659 kB, run time:   31.88 m,  successful read:      13 s ago
> Finished
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Second, I have searched for hours to figure out what to do with "cdimage".
> I have the file on my hard drive. But nobody seems to be able to tell me
> in stupid language how to turn "cdimage" into a photo CD.
> 
> Please help. I am at the end of my rope.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ron Asselstine
> D 'n R Computer Services
> 
> 
> P.S.   I am not charging these people anything to do this. They have
> already paid a tremendous personal amount.
> 
> 
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