Hi Antonio. Thanks for the reply. I tried both of your suggestions. No
change in results. It still refuses to exceed 300-500 KB/s.

I shut down and powered off the computer and both drives multiple times. I
restarted ddrescue multiple times.

Any other thoughts? I just don't understand why it would initially recover
so quickly and now it just refuses...

Thank you,

James



On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]>wrote:

> James Watts wrote:
>
>> I am currently rescuing a 500GB drive. When I first started ddrescue, the
>> routine began recovering data at the blistering rate of 18-20 MB/s. Then
>> it
>> encountered an error (after recovering about 20GB) and the drive got
>> hung-up
>> and did not respond to commands. So I had to turn off the drive, turn it
>> on
>> again, and restart ddrescue. Now, it's been going for two days holding at
>> a
>> rate of 300-500 KB/s. It has not encountered any more errors according to
>> the on-screen info and the log (see below). So why will it not ramp up to
>> the high-speed from before? At this rate, it could take weeks to complete.
>>
>
> Did you only reset the drive (/dev/sdb) instead of rebooting the whole
> computer? Maybe the controller or even the kernel switched to a slower mode
> after the error.
>
>
>  Thoughts? Am I doing something wrong? What would you do differently?
>>
>
> If the reboot doesn't work, I would try to stop ddrescue and restart it at
> the next multiple of 64KiB. (The next position with four trailing zeros:
> 0xD2C290600 ==> 0xD2C2A0000).
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.
>
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