The documentaion says "Every bad sector is tried only one time per pass."
Is there a way to increase retries per each failed sector before proceeding to the next? After 3 weeks of running ddrescues I've reached 99.996% rescue status and the remaining bad sectors are very stubborn. Reads stall frequently and I have to use timeout and "while true" shell loop to continue. Most of the time is spent on the timeouts. For eaxample, the "while true" ddrescue loop has been running for 14 hours and restarted 92 times with "ddrescue -T 600". At the same time the non-tried area count descreased 1120, over 10 times bigger than the loop restart count. Looks to me 8% reads got stuck and all the time is spent in long timeouts. Retrying non-stuck sectors on the spot wouldn't hurt. Jarkko Lavinen _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
