June 1st, 2016, 13:36
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Spildit wrote:If your cloning tool is using the same method as a OS API rather then issuing direct I/O to the drive then results might be like when scanning with windows API and PIO.
Spildit wrote:TRUE response from the drive is aquired from PIO. Maybe OS is trying to compensate for the errors and sending to victoria data that is not exactly the same data that the drive is outputing to the OS.
Your OS (windows) is not shoing to victoria the sectors that have it's ID not found and are uncorrected. If the same happens with your cloning tool using some sort of OS API then the same might happen. Tool sends request to the OS instead to use direct I/O to the drive.
Spildit wrote:You don't need vendor specific commands to read sectors with bad checksum. READ LONG for instance is a standard ATA command. Doing several normal standard reads to attempt a good read unsing normal standard ATA commands is an option as well.
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