[Bug-ddrescue] Feature Request: Append some information about sectors
From:
William
Subject:
[Bug-ddrescue] Feature Request: Append some information about sectors
Date:
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:31:48 -0200
Hello.
Feature Request: Include information about "current sector", "last readable sector" and "last unreadable sector" when using "-vvvv" option, being viewed at real time.
Something like:
rescued: 698655 KiB, errsize: 1024 B, current rate: 26208 KiB/s ipos: 698656 KiB, errors: 2, average rate: 69865 KiB/s opos: 698656 KiB, time since last successful read: 0 s
*csector: 1397312 *lrsector: 1397312 *lusector: 1397300
In most cases, such information could not be read due to the rate of sectors changing, but I think It would help in diagnosis of damaged hard drives. Per example, a damaged head usually generates big unreadable areas. On the other hand, damaged platters commonly generates many unreadable small areas. It would also be useful to show the activity of ddrescue when running retries in slow areas.