Need good disk dump utility

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:

 >> > 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.

That would make sense.  The normal assumption is that drivers do
retry.  The driver might have a way to adjust how hard it retries, but
certainly no competent driver would give up immediately on a disk I/O
error. 

       paul