25 Apr
2005
25 Apr
'05
8:50 a.m.
>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage
Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:
> > From Jules Richardson, 25. April 2005 16:25
> >
> > One thing that'd be useful would be a patched version of dd that
> could > also retry reading bad blocks n times up to some
> command-line supplied > maximum; quite often I find for marginal
> data (such as flakey floppies > and hard disks) an initial read
> might work but one or more subsequent > reads work find. Far as I
> know standard dd won't retry reading data at > all.
That would make sense. The normal assumption is that drivers do
retry. The driver might have a way to adjust how hard it retries, but
certainly no competent driver would give up immediately on a disk I/O
error.
paul