dd_rescue output on hdd recovery operation

[anthony baldwin]

As I've mentioned, I am trying to recover data from a hosed drive (mad 
bad blocks).
I am running dd_rescue from a knoppix disk and copying said 80gb drive 
to a partition on a brand new 200gb drive.

dd_rescue has been running for near 36 hours now, and this is the most 
recent output:

*dd_rescue: (info): ipos:    884781.5k, opos:    884781.5k, xferd:    
884781.5k
                *  errs:  12955, errxfer:      6477.5k, succxfer:    
878304.0k
             +curr.rate:        0kB/s, avg.rate:        8kB/s, 
avg.load:  0.1%
dd_rescue: (warning): /dev/hdb (884781.5k): Input/output error!


*Do I understand this correctly?  It looks like it's telling me that
c. 88.4781 gb have been transferred, but only 87.8304gb successfully 
transferred.
(0.6477gb error, not bad percentage wise).
What I don't understand is, 88gb?  The drive is only 80gb...
And it is still going...
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Tony

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