dd (coreutils 6.10)

[Jon Grant]

Hi,

I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.

I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2 
tries?

I am running with this command line so it just saves zero if it can't 
get the block:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 conv=noerror

Attached is a log of a section of it running which illustrates the problem.

I would be happy to implement the feature if it is not presently
implemented.  Perhaps an additional iflag=FLAGS  ? (I could not find the
current documentation of them in the man or info pages BTW)

Kind regards, Jon