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I'm recovering data from an hdd using ddrescue
. With "retry" disabled, it takes roughly 30 seconds for every unreadable sector. The hdd has tens of thousands of bad sectors and the process is taking forever.
Can I shorten the read error timeout to, say, 3 seconds? Perhaps with ATA commands? Kernel options? Firmware hacks?
smartctl
info:
Device Model: Hitachi HTS542525K9A300
Firmware Version: BBFOC3EP
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3f
Sorry to comment on such an ancient question. Did you ever find a solution to your problem? – Ryan Sorensen – 2014-07-16T00:54:36.440
Unfortuntely, no – netvope – 2014-09-21T02:00:13.733