Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Speedup reading from broken hdd | From | Florian Huber <> | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:08:35 +0100 |
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Hello ML, I have one broken harddisk, but most of the sectors are still ok. Whenn I try to dump the data via dd_rescue and it comes to faulty bytes/bits/whatever the kernel takes a lot of time (retries, timeout?) till it recognizes that it's broken. (The usual error in kernel log...).
Is there a possibilty to speed this up? Maybe there is a kernel patch or I can access this device in a different way?
TIA
-- Florian Huber
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