Pass N now reads at 32 sectors per attempt and drops to 1 only on
batch-read failure to probe each sector individually. After 16
consecutive clean single-sector reads it climbs back to 32. Net
effect: NonTrimmed regions walk ~32x faster in clean stretches
without sacrificing per-sector recovery quality — the drop-to-1
retry from the same cursor position guarantees every sector in a
failed batch is individually attempted.
Design contract:
- A batch-read failure (count > 1) is NOT a recorded failure: no
NonTrimmed mark, no consecutive_failures bump, no damage_window
push, cursor stays put. We just drop current_batch to 1 and the
loop re-attempts the same position at single-sector granularity.
- A single-sector failure (count == 1) follows the existing path:
NonTrimmed mark, consecutive_failures++, damage_window.push(false),
post-failure pause, wedge probes.
- Backtrack always at count=1: this path fills a gap that the main
loop's damage-window skip jumped over. Using batched reads there
would lump good sectors into NonTrimmed marks when the gap
contains even one bad sector.
State machine adds:
- `initial_batch` (from opts.block_sectors, default 32 in patch_internal)
- `current_batch` (mutable, starts at initial_batch, drops to 1 on
batch failure)
- `consecutive_singles_ok` (counter, resets on upscale + failure)
- `ADAPTIVE_UPSCALE_THRESHOLD = 16` (matches sweep's pattern for
"16 consecutive good = back to fast mode")
Tests:
- pass_n_size_aware_skip.rs PatternedSectorReader now fills each
sector with its OWN LBA byte (not the starting LBA's byte). This
matches real drive behavior — the pre-0.18.13 fixture's
"fill whole batch with one byte" was a shortcut that only worked
when patch read 1 sector at a time. Existing recovery-quality
assertions all still pass under adaptive batching.
User spec: "try 32, pass, great, fail -> do 1 sector"
MattJackson
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