Most of my own programming job concerns dealing with many different
interfaces and quite an extraordinary variety of business logic cases.
So trust me: I can relate. ;-)

And: This is the reason why I share so much information here. Maybe it
will help another poor sap who comes here crawling the history for
information on rescuing his own WD Green Line drive.

I will leave it running for a while and see where we are in three
days. I can see from the visualization that the current area is kind
of complicated, so I would have to go through it at some point...

-David

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Deutsch wrote:
>>
>> After about 18 hours of reading in -R mode:
>> [...]
>>
>> So it currently runs an order of magnitude slower than before. Or was
>> that to be expected for the area that I'm reading?
>
>
> One never knows what to expect from a failing drive. :-)
>
> It seemed that the end of the disc had fewer errors, but they may be harder
> to recover.
>
> You may resume the rescue from where you were before with:
>
>   ddrescue your_options_and_files -i 791401MB
>
> or you may leave it working and it will arrive there in 2.6 days or so.
>
>
> Now imagine how difficult it is to develop an algorithm that works
> reasonably well on all drives.

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