Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
In any event, not being able to copy starting at the back of the drive and working forwards means that one is forced to binary search the drive by hand:
Not at all. You can, after the first error, mark the rest of the drive as non-trimmed. This will instruct ddrescue to read backwards one sector at a time, until a bad sector is found. See the section "Algorithm" in the manual.
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