Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Option to exit when minimum-read-rate threshold is reached?

[Paul Daniels]

I found --exit-on-slow in 1.22-pre5,   all solved and working nicely.  
Sorry about that.




On 06/12/16 20:24, Paul Daniels wrote:
> Carrying on from my previous message earlier today,  I have found the 
> drive will produce decent data transfer rates for about 300~500MB of 
> transfers before dropping to about 64KB/sec.
>
> Is there a way I can make ddrescue terminate if the read rate drops 
> below the --minimum-read-rate=<bytes> level?  Is this a feature 
> somewhere I might have missed?
>
> While I have a script written that'll just read 300MB blocks and power 
> cycle the drive, I would prefer to minimise the power cycling by 
> instead letting ddrescue detect when the read rate has dropped off and 
> them terminate.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
>
>
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