Re: failing HDD, ddrescue says remaning time is 7104d
On Wed 31 Aug 2022 at 15:27:04 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 03:25:36PM +0200, ppr wrote:
> > I did not try to mount the HDD. I plugged an external HDD (ext4)
> > and launched ddrescue. After two days it has recovered 33GB of 1TB
> > but the speed are now so slow it will take 7104 days to complete.
>
> is the img file still growing? in general you're going to have issues
> with error retries on external disks because the various layers don't
> play well together (including the sata/usb hardware in the enclosure).
> your best bet would be to try to hook the drive up internally, but if
> the disk is really dead nothing is going to help.
I was under the impression that an internal drive was being rescued,
and the copy and mapfile were being written to the external one.
Or does the SMART information tell you something I've overlooked?
Cheers,
David.
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