In article <[email protected]>, Eric Stout wrote: > To make that while a bit longer, I have installed it into an > aluminum USB2 & Firewire enclosure and stored it in the fridge. > When I work with it, I move the bad drive in the enclosure into the > freezer and access run RIP Linux and ddrescue from a notebook just > outside the fridge. In this way I can read 2 to 8 GB before the > drive stops responding.
I've had deeply mixed results when using ddrescue on disks connected via USB. I suspect that the chipsets/drivers/etc. haven't been written to handle errors correctly and ddrescue would often seem to cover data, but it would be the same data repeated over and over. Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
