Hi ListMates, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum but hopefully someone will have an answer for me. I have a faulty 500Gb notebook disk that I want to clone and recover. I use ddrescue (with the -n option) to clone the faulty hdd to a new hdd. The problem is that based on the current stats, it will take days/weeks to complete the clone!!! I know that I have a faulty drive, I just want to clone the faulty drive unto a new drive, simply skip the faulty sectors (zero fill on the destination drive) and continue the clone - I don't want the system to keep retrying over and over to read the faulty sector - try once and die and set the destination sector zero-filled. Where there are no errors on the original drive the copy goes fast, but once it hits a bad sector it is painfully slow!!!! So where is the bottle neck? 1) ddrescue - according to the docs if one uses the -n option it wont bother to read or recover the faulty sectors on the faulty drive (I also tried -r1 - read/retry once) but to no avail. BTW I tried both read from beginning of disk as well as reading from back (-R), but alas to no avail as once it gets to the faulty sectors it becomes painfully slow. 2) is it a kernel parameter - ie how to turn of retrying to read the faulty sector n..times 3) is it a sata driver parameter - ie likewise how to turn of retrying to read the faulty sector n..times 4) or is it the firmware on the faulty hdd? (in that case I'm not sure there is a solution to turn of retrying faulty sectors or remapping them) I'm not sure there is a solution but if anyone knows any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org