Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Hey. Here is a much needed improvement request

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- "Asbjørn Holland Christensen" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I love you work with this program it has saved my as!# on a few 
> orcations. Currently i am trying to restore my friends external
> disk... I usaly starts with
> ddrescue -n /dev/[source] /dev/[target] rescue.log
> then i do ddrescue -dr1 /dev/[source] /dev/[target] rescue.log
> That has allways solved my problems... But in this case.
> The problem is that at some point the disk fails so that the system 
> cannot see the disk any more so i have to shutdown the computer 
> completely to regain access to the disk to continue. The improvment
> that i request is for ddrescue to stop when a disk fails like this insted
> of continuing marking sectors as tryed runing quickly over the rest of
> the disk...
> 
> If there is a way to tell ddrescue to stop on total disk failure then
> i havent found it. If not then i don't hope it is to much truble to 
> implament...

I'll bet that's a *Seagate* disc...

In fact, there is a way to get the behaviour you seek, as I needed it too,
for the same reasons:  use -e0; this wlil cause ddrescue to stop on the first
error it sees.

Cheers,
-- jra

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