Hi David, Thank you. I will give ddrescue a shot then. But what is it different than a dd with the noerror conversion? Krekna 2006/2/14, David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Krekna Mektek wrote: > > >I want to rebuilt from the good one and the faulty one. That's why I > >wanted to dd the disk to an image file, but it complains it has no > >boot sector. > > > > > > > >>>>I did the folowing: > >>>> > >>>>dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd1 of=/mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img > >>>>losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img > >>>> > >>>> > You could try doing this again using ddrescue (google if you need to > install it): > > ddrescue dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.log > > Then do it again using -r10 (to increase the retries on the faulty sectors) > > ddrescue -r10 dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.log > > This will be much quicker because the log file contains details of the > faulty sectors. > With luck (mucho luck) you may not even lose data. > > David > > -- > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
