Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Weird behavior with options -d and -c

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

xerces8 wrote:
> When I add "-d -c 1500" to the command line, ddrescue does not copy,
> but as it says "Splitting error areas...".
> Also it says : errsize: 640 GB

Do you mean "weird user behaviour". ;-)

Why are you asking ddrescue to read 1500 sectors (768kB) at a time 
directly from the drive? I suppose your drive does not have an internal 
buffer so big. See the kernel log messages to confirm it.


Regards,
Antonio.