Hi Antonio,
I have a couple of requests if at all possible to include them in the
next version:
Firstly, if the --min-read-rate and --max-slow-reads configuration could
be extended so it could be possible to include a timeout, so, I would
set --min-read-rate and then --max-slow-read-time=60 or something like
that. So if it sits at or below the minimum for that length of time, it
would exit ddrescue... Alternatively to this, could you send ALL the
error codes to stdout? Not just 0, 1, 3 ... Then I could write a script
to get around the time issue.. I presently have a drive which runs fine
for a random period of time, then just goes slow, a power cycle and it's
fine.. I'd like to automate this process..
Second request is for a whitespace detector, hopefully it's not outside
the scope of ddrescue and isn't as hard as it sounds. But basically on
really slow drives, yet large drives which have data spread sparsely for
whatever reason, it would be good if ddrescue could be told to jump
forward xM read, if it sees whitespace, then skip again. Then when it
finds data, it skips backwards in much smaller increments until it finds
whitespace again, and then starts recovering the drive normally till it
hits more whitespace, then repeats...
I hope that is enough of a description of my requests, let me know if
not. Thanks for doing such a great job!
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Kind Regards,
Cameron Andrews
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