On 1/4/2015 1:43 PM, Rod Speed wrote:

I have a very old PATA HDD that is dying due to SMART errors and I am
trying to copy my data to another working drive, but it has problems
reading some data. Here is an example:

$ cp -R * ~/DebianPATAhddBackups/
cp: cannot stat `Files/AntsImages': Input/output error
cp: reading `Mac OS X.dmg': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `Mac OS X.dmg': Input/output error

I assume my Debian stable was unable to copy those files. IIRC, there
was a way to retry over and over until copied fully. How do I do that?

With that many reallocated and pending sectors, it aint gunna happen.

Ah, so http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html is
useless then. That is what I remember using even though it took almost a
week to complete, but it worked.
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