Need good disk dump utility

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On 25 Apr 2005, Christian Groessler wrote:

> > From Jules Richardson, 25. April 2005 16:25
> >
> > One thing that'd be useful would be a patched version of dd that could
> > also retry reading bad blocks n times up to some command-line supplied
> > maximum; quite often I find for marginal data (such as flakey floppies
> > and hard disks) an initial read might work but one or more subsequent
> > reads work find. Far as I know standard dd won't retry reading data at
> > all.
>
> I think sdd does all this.
> See ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sdd

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone!

I checked out sdd and it does not mention anything about errors.
Nonetheless, I'll take everyone's input and get a Linux system running
(something I've been meaning to do anyway).  If need be, I'll hack dd to
make it work in a sane manner with errors, and will let everyone know
about it at that time.

In the meantime I've written a file extractor that handles the sector
headers embedded in the Anadisk images and it seems to work pretty well.
It was just more complicated than it needed to be.

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