Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Version 1.15-rc1 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Dennis Juhler Aagaard wrote:
> First of all, I wish you a happy new year. :-)

Thanks. I wish you the same. :-)


> I forgot to mention that i started the rescue with the line:
>
> sudo ddrescue -v -S -r3 --min-read-rate=512k yada yada yada
>
> So im actually beginning to think that the min-read-rate are flagging alot of 
> errors in the log file without any errors being present.

Surely it is flagging a lot of slow areas for later passes. From the 
fine manual:

"Note that specifying a minimum read rate above the posibilities of the 
input device will result in a very low average rate because all reads 
will be considered slow reads and continuous skipping will occur".


Regards,
Antonio.