Last I reported one of these was for a 2TB model in August 2017. This one is a 320GB model WD3200AVVS shipped in a DVDR manufactured in 2011, the exact same model I had fail in a sister DVDR 3 years ago. The HD check function of the DVDR reported HD hours in use >20000. The HD was manufactured a month before the DVR, so both are more than 5 years old. When DVDR is powered up and not intentionally recording, it constantly buffers up to the last 6 hours of the currently tuned channel or input source for replay or permanent saving. These DVRDs use the HD in a proprietary manner, so backup and restore like we do with PC files is not possible. It can write to/from DVD, but only in real time, which makes backup and restore impractical other than by removing the disk from the DVDR and imaging it, useless for anything saved since making the last image. The DVDR froze trying to play a recording, so I shut it down, pulled the HD out, and made an image of it thus: ddrescue -d /dev/sdc dvdrfile.img dvdrfile.logfile Rescued size while running was 10MB less than total size. Average rate was 49894kB/s. Errsize: 67072B. Errors: 81. Rescued: 320072MB. ipos/opos 314588MB. Runtime: 106min. The man page, like most man pages, is minimalist WRT examples. https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/3/gnu-ddrescue-best-damaged-... like https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html suggests 3 retries. I tried again adding -r5, but errsize only improved by 3 X 512. Should I try again using -r12 or more, or with other options? Or with dc3dd, or something else? Should I try again after dropping its temperature in the refrigerator or freezer? Is more improvement pointless to hope for? Excerpt from smartctl -x: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-K 200 200 051 - 906 3 Spin_Up_Time POS--K 154 153 021 - 3266 4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 099 099 000 - 1529 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 200 200 140 - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate -OSR-K 200 200 000 - 0 9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 072 072 000 - 20906 10 Spin_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 099 099 000 - 1518 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 39 193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 1529 194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 102 084 000 - 41 196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--CK 198 198 000 - 131 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----CK 100 253 000 - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate ---R-- 100 253 000 - 0 ||||||_ K auto-keep |||||__ C event count ||||___ R error rate |||____ S speed/performance ||_____ O updated online |______ P prefailure warning -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org