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I am trying to get a disk image of a SCSI disk using ddrescue on Solaris10 (Sparc). The disk is non-solaris, and ddrescue gets an immediate I/O error (as does dd). I used format to label the disk as Solaris, and now ddrescue reads it fine. Is there any way to get the image without labelling the disk as Solaris?

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by the way, the solaris format command (subcommand read) can read the disk, and finds no errors. – rleir Feb 1 '10 at 17:15
It would help if you tell precisely the command you run, and especially what device you use. – jlliagre Jan 25 '11 at 20:56
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As default ddrescue uses the kernel i/o to do the reads. If the kernel is only set up to support Spark disks, then this might be your problem.

You could try using the -d flag )direct disc access for input file) but you would then have to set the correct blocksize for the device (-b xxx).

Hope this works :)

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ddrescue tells me the -d flag is not supported on this system. Is there a way to config the kernel to support non-solaris disks? Thanks for your help! – rleir Feb 2 '10 at 15:37
I have no idea, tbh -might be a good idea to ask in #opensolaris or similar. urm, if it was linux, then I'd say make sure the correct drivers/fs were compiled into the kernel. Are you sure the disk isn't BORKED? – MidnighToker Feb 14 '10 at 5:24
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Are you using the raw disk device with ddrescue? /dev/rdsk/xxx instead of /dev/dsk/xxx?

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Yes, I was using rdsk, thanks. – rleir Feb 1 '10 at 17:09
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