help needed

[Matthieu Amiguet <matthieu.amiguet@epfl.ch>]

Hello,

I'm trying to recover damaged small cd's from a sony digital camera.

# recoverdm-0.15/recoverdm -t 20 -i /dev/scd0 -o recover1.cd     
recoverdm v0.15, (c) 2003-2004 by folkert@vanheusden.com

error at 0 bytes, retrying: 1
error at 0 bytes, retrying: 2
error at 0 bytes, retrying: 3
seek to end...
error at 0 bytes, retrying: 4
resetting device...
error at 0 bytes, retrying: 5
resetting controller...
error at 0 bytes, retrying: 6
Trying RAW read...
Tried reading 6 times, failed doing that. Continuing...
Done

# ls -lh recover1.cd 
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 jun  7 10:19 recover1.cd


Does not sound too good... any advice?

Best regards,

Matthieu