Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature Request: Append some information about sectors

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello William.

William wrote:
> Feature Request:
> Include information about "current sector", "last readable sector" and
> "last unreadable sector" when using "-vvvv" option, being viewed at real
> time.

I am not sure if those would be useful, specially "current sector", 
which can be inferred from ipos (or opos).


> 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.

But ddrescue skips and jumps. Knowing the "last readable sector" is not 
enough to know the size of the current area (good or bad). You need to 
look at the logfile for that.


> It would also be useful to show the activity of ddrescue when
> running retries in slow areas.

There is no such thing as "retries in slow areas". Slow areas are "good 
areas" (they have been successfully read) and are therefore not retried.


Regards,
Antonio.