[Discuss] Help with I/O errors on RAID array?

[Ron]

Bill Bogstad wrote on 2025-10-14 15:34:

> There is a "try really hard" copy command.   It will copy a file in
> large chunks until it gets an error and then use seeks and smaller
> block size reads to recover as much of the file as possible.  It will
> also retry the bad single block reads multiple times in case it is a
> temporary problem.  (More likely to work for magnetic media.)

That sounds like `ddrescue` if anyone's interested.