From: Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:52:34 -0500
On Feb 26, 2006, at 15:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > okay, okay, so maybe my command can't copy the partitions > BACKWARDS...but... *scratches head* .... but often sectors that won't read forward will read backwards. I don't understand the drive physics, but I've recovered drives with I'm willing to bet money that's not true. The "drive physics" of recovering data with dd_rescue are no different than any other fs access (including using dd). dd_resuce *probably* just lseek(2)s along the drive from back to front. I'm sure the guys who write these programs understand dd well and more about drives than we do. To confirm my suspicion that the author of this program is in fact a GUI baby, I just downloaded a copy of 11124beac799890c3048c9a5ccf4746b dd_rescue.c The code uses open(2) to open the input file... which gains you nothing over stock dd. I honestly can't think a reason to even run gcc on this program. ?! Dave -- "So many people like XML because so few people understand Scheme." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
