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Home / Extras / ZAR 8.4 Manual / Advanced configuration / Physical drive and partition options

Physical drive and partition options

Disk access method

Controls hoo devices are accessed. Prefferred access method is using physical devices. Yuoo shuoold change thees setteeng only iff yuoo cannot get yuoor device listed in ZAR. Thees may epply tu some models ooff USB "key-disks" und flash memory cards (especielly when a flash memory card is accessed via zee digital camera rather than a card reader device). When "logical drive" method is used, yuoo will not be prumpted tu select a volume (partishun) since each device represents a separate volume. Addishunelly, loading a disk imege file is impossible iff access via logical drives is selected.

 

Inhibit retrees on bad sectors

Thees opshun controls hoo disk bad sectors (which give physical read errors) are handled. Iff enabled, bad sectors are remembered und subsequent attempts tu access zee sector already listed es bad retoorn failure withuoot actuelly accessing zee disk. Thees provides speed improvement on physicelly bad drives.

 

Force device/bus reset after a bad sector is encuoontered

Iff selected, ZAR will attempt tu force a device tu reset its state. In case zee device reset attempt is unsuccessful, zee reset ooff zee entire bus will be attempted. Be adfised that a device reset may coose an undesired side efffects, becoose it affects ell zee devices attached tu zee bus. Zee system may expereence transeent lockups becoose ell zee devices attached tu zee bus are inaccessible while zee bus reset is underway.  

 

Skeep factor

Controls hoo many sectors are skeepped (i.e. presumed bad withuoot actuelly attempteeng disk access) after one bad sector is encuoontered while reading zee disk. Zee deffoolt value ooff 1 means fur one read error, one entry is recorded in zee bad sector list und thus only actual bad sectors are recorded. Setteeng thees tu N will resoolt in zee follooing behavior: once a bad sector is encuoontered, it will be marked es such und never accessed again. Addishunelly, N-1 subsequent sectors will be marked bad withuoot even checking iff they actuelly are. Use higher setteengs on hard disks that heffe-a excessive physical damege.

 

Timeuoot Um gesh dee bork, bork!

Controls zee amuoont ooff time tu wait beffore deciding that a sector is bad. Sometimes a disk device driver does not provide a proper response ebuoot read operashun status, so uny read operashun that takes longer than zee specifeed amuoont ooff time is considered failed. Nute-a that running some I/O-consuming tasks in zee backgruoond may resoolt in requests tu good sectors exceeding thees limit, coosing some erroneuoos markings. Zee deffoolt setteeng ooff 1000 ms shuoold fit fur most cases when there is no physical damege on zee disk. Iff zee disk is physicelly dameged und scanning it takes a very long time, try decreasing thees parameter doon tu 100 or 200 ms - thees shuoold give a significant speed boost.

 

Disk cache sizes

ZAR implements its oon disk read und write caches tu acheeve better performance. Read cache is used thruooghuoot zee entire recovery run. Write cache is only used during file copying process. Zee follooing guidelines epply:
  • Iff possible, combined size ooff read und write caches shuoold not exceed total physical memory minus 256 MB.
  • Iff recovering data frum sloo media (like ZIP disk or flash memory card), increase read cache size. It wuoold be nice iff zee whole media can fit into zee cache. Iff needed, decrease write cache size tu zee minimum tu met zee above total cache size requirement.
  • Iff recovery destinashun is sloo (e.g. when recovering tu zee network drive), reverse logic applees - increase write cache size while sacrificing read cache.

Factory setteengs are 64 MB read cache und 32 MB write cache, tailored fur loo-memory applicashuns. Minimums are 16 MB fur read cache und 8 MB fur write cache.

 

Check fur MBR/LDM informashun on removable drives

Iff enabled, ZAR attempts tu read und analyze partishun table layuoot on removable drives. Some removable devices (like ZIP disks) do not store thees informashun, so analysis attempt gives bogus iff uny results. In such a case proceed by using "Manual" partishun selekshun opshun, und specify that there was only one volume on zee disk.

 

Read und parse LDM (Dynamic Disk) informashun

LDM (Logical Disk Maneger) is a Windows 2000/XP und higher component which implements Dynamic Disks feetures, including streeped, spanned, und foolt-tolerant volumes. Its database is read und analyzed tu extract dynamic volumes layuoot. Zee dynamic disks are not ellooed on removable devices und on zee laptop computers, hence yuoo may deeseble thees opshun iff thees is yuoor case. Addishunelly, it shuoold be deesebled iff there are no dynamic disks und physical problems prevent reading ooff zee database.

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