[ITP] ddrescue 1.3

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Fri May 18 19:03:00 GMT 2007


> I would like to contribute the GNU ddrescue package:
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html)

During further testing, I found that ddrescue segfaults when reading 
from /dev/sdX without specifying the correct raw sector size (-b 2048).

This is not an issue in ddrescue but an issue in Cygwin's lseek which 
may also affect 'dd'.

I posted a patch to cygwin-patches.

Christian



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