Again running smartctl after all is said and done:
smartctl --all /dev/sda
ddrescue-smartctl-after-rescue.png ddrescue-smartctl-2.png
Yet an old drive in itself, I run the wheels off of them, and monitor regularly as anyone should.
Make ISO from DVD
In this case I had an OS install disk which was required to be on a virtual node with no optical drive, so I needed to transfer an image to the server to create a VM
Find out which device the DVD is:
lsblk
Output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda2 8:2 0 464.8G 0 part
├─centos-root 253:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
├─centos-swap 253:1 0 11.8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─centos-home 253:2 0 403G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 1 14.5G 0 disk /mnt
sr0 11:0 1 4.1G 0 rom /run/media/rick/CCSA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5
Therefore /dev/sr0 is the location , or disk to be made into an ISO
I prefer simplicity, and sometimes deal with the fallout after the fact, however Ive repeated this countless times with success.
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=win10.iso
Where if=Input file and of=output file
I chill out and do something else while the image is being copied/created, and the final output:
8555456+0 records in
8555456+0 records out
4380393472 bytes (4.4 GB) copied, 331.937 s, 13.2 MB/s
Fin!