Re: [Bug-ddrescue] How to increase retries within a pass?

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Jarkko Lavinen wrote:
> Those reads were stuck since the kernel was in endless retry loop
> which was terminated by ddrescue timeout.
>
> There was discuession "ata_eh_link_autopsy: Bug?" in linux-ide about 
> media errors year ago:
>   http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/52019
>
> The endless retry on media errors has been fixed in v3.5 kernel.

Thanks for the info. It seems that retrying the same sector several 
times in a row is mainly a waste of time.


Best regards,
Antonio.