On 11/23/2017 04:52 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
>
>> when I read a specific external harddrive with gddrescue, I cannot
>> interrupt (Ctrl+C) the reading when the faulty areas are read (or
>> tried to).
>> If I disconnect the drive, gddrescue does react and stopp. Even with -v
>> -v I get no output what is going on.
>> Using "-T 1" to limit timeouts to 1 second I cannot interrupt using
>> Ctrl+C.
>>
>> Is this a bug or expected behaviour?
>
> It looks like a bug or limitation in the kernel driver (the read call
> blocks forever until you disconnect the drive).
Hi Antonio,

So there is nothing that can be done about this? It's an USB HDD, so it
is a quite common device type...

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