Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
1. LACK OF ERROR INFORMATION TILL PASS 4
[...]
My suggestion would be that a running counts of "Errored blocks skipped"
with a Sector or Byte count contained therein be displayed during Passes
1-3 as well, so that users are aware of data blocks not (yet) recovered
as soon as errors are encountered.
Have you tried ddrescue 1.22 or later? It shows a count of read errors:
GNU ddrescue 1.23-pre2
ipos: 0 B, non-trimmed: 0 B, current rate: 1 B/s
opos: 0 B, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 1 B/s
non-tried: 0 B, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 1 B, bad areas: 0, run time: 0s
pct rescued: 100.00%, read errors: 0, remaining time: n/a
time since last successful read: n/a
Finished
2. -A OPTION DOESN'T SEEM TO DO ANYTHING
Even though I had errored blocks, which -A is supposed to mark as unread
You need to use -M in addition to -A:
-A, --try-again mark non-trimmed, non-scraped as non-tried
-M, --retrim mark all failed blocks as non-trimmed
Best regards,
Antonio.
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