Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: FreeBSD-Chat mailing list <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Program to copy data from a bad disk? Message-ID: <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig10974C634FBC4BDAE1646FE6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors=20 for unknown reasons. I am looking for some software that is capable of=20 doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive. I have tried dd but with conv=3Dnoerror,sync it would just fill 0's for=20 the whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want=20 bs=3D128k or even larger, but that means that you will lose data when 1 = of these 256 sectors is bad). Is there any program that is smarter=20 which do a sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use larger=20 transfer buffer for others? Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enig10974C634FBC4BDAE1646FE6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH9sG9OfuToMruuMARCr4pAJ0XbDFbuPfE4iSmGNrgCU3OnRcUsQCghUNp pR/grkx0RqOimQacvvIUvbo= =4vuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig10974C634FBC4BDAE1646FE6--
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