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toke lahti

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Apr 23, 2007
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Hi,
Might not be the pest place to ask.
If you can suggest a forum or anything where are discussions about using Ddrescue with macOS, please tell!

I've been trying to clone a bad drive.
I did it in linux, but now my live-OCS does not see the drive at all.
On the other hand windows and macOS do see it after a small delay.

Running Ddrescue on macOS (Sonoma in my case) is quite a bit slower than in linux, but the main annoyance is that somehow in macOS, Ddrescue thinks that the drive size is 9223 PETAbytes!
Which makes using ddrescueview not practical.
Maybe it even wastes time to read that area that does not exist?

Is there a fix for telling Ddrescue the right size?
Or how could I tell it to find the right size by itself?

On linux I've run version 1.23. On mac, I've installed 1.29.1 via Homebrew.
 
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