Well it appears it was just going slowly through a bad part of the disk = it has completed.
I do however have another query - i have a disk with errors - its doesnt show up in fdisk -l but fsdisk -l shows it as sdb. unrecognised partition table type no partitions found read input/output error - cannot read sector 0 Anything else I can try other than ddrescue -vn? Cheers -Al Al Grant wrote: > > Sorry, I had installed ddrescue via the apt-get command which I didnt know > installed a old version. Have downloaded and installed the latest verion > which I had thought cured the problem, but infact when it gets to roughly > 10g it slows down again. > > -Al > > > Al Grant wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I am trying to run ddrescue on a disk with a few bad sectors. Evidently >> it has not encountered them yet as errors is still 0, but ddrescue is >> going very slowly: >> >> The data rate is averaging 43000B/S. >> >> I have tried -d - which is an invlid switch. >> >> I have tried -c 64 which didnt seem to help much. >> >> I am currently running it wiht sudo ddrescue -n -c 64 /dev/sdc >> /storage/test testlog >> >> I am also running it from a USB-IDE bridge and imaging to a disk attached >> to a PCI SATA controller card with disk attached..not sure if this migh >> tbe effecting speed? >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Cheers >> >> -Al >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ddresacue-going-slowly---fixes--tp24653969p24665325.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
