> *THIS* is the key! While it possibly slows down the recovery on a > normal drive, in this case it's improved my average read rate to > ~200KB/sec and it doesn't degenerate after bad sectors.
Unfortunately it seems that while I have indeed gained a higher average recovery rate, it still is not bouncing back after the bad sector / damaged areas, so it's back to the drawing board for me. I'm not sure why it did it for the one time that I tried at the start, but it's not doing it any more :( I might grab another dying drive and set up some extensive traces in ddrescue to see what's happening. Thanks for the help though Antonio, that idea of yours at least did give me some extra headway :) -- Computer Repairs for Charters towers - http://ctpc.biz A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
