From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NTXXN-0001Sx-JQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:23:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68F74E078D; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34714E078D for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 91DCE2EC9E0 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:23:06 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow? Message-ID: <20100109092306.2d865f01@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <128ccc221001082320m339e68c0n65b464bb3b8e3373@mail.gmail.com> References: <128ccc221001081933q25aef6f1ne55398ade946f5a3@mail.gmail.com> <128ccc221001082320m339e68c0n65b464bb3b8e3373@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs55 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/wBVfdqPJrsZ47pPsq+Kpmir"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 582a37fb-3dae-4af9-8313-c9c06c6aab4b X-Archives-Hash: be78ef040dd1740cca52a838e278b231 --Sig_/wBVfdqPJrsZ47pPsq+Kpmir Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +0000, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time > from last successful read" can be 8m. >=20 > Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it cannot read? That would explain the variable read rate, even the period of zero activity. If your drive is that badly damaged, dd would have been no use anyway. --=20 Neil Bothwick There's too much blood in my caffeine system. --Sig_/wBVfdqPJrsZ47pPsq+Kpmir Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktISvsACgkQum4al0N1GQMCygCdFV34PnpQEq19VTmq3IgkjTqu r5cAnAgrpwnRWh+NHJ/APaTaGhSefbJZ =3phZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wBVfdqPJrsZ47pPsq+Kpmir--