On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:35:11 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> The man page suggests "noerror" might be the option you're looking
>> for....
> 
> That makes it ignore *read* errors, but not *write* errors.
> 
> With enough Googling, I found lots of people complaining about this, but
> no fixes for it.
> 
> However, I discovered a program called dd_rescue which ignores write
> errors by default. So that solves me problem...

Ah, that would explain the difference - I had used that for imaging a 
dead hard drive, but it would've been read errors.

But it seems you found your answer. :-)

Jim

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