CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@anathem @kat_cal2 Depending on the failure and the state and behavior of the controller it's still worth to at least try to use ddrescue with SSDs, SD-cards, thumb-drives etc. ... at least if the device is still detected and has a non-zero size.
Otherwise either the controller is fried or it failed to read the important bits from the storage to operate. That's hardware-tools/data recovery service territory.

@kat_cal2 I don't know of any program doing exactly what you want. But CD-ROM Mode 1 (your normal data storage CD) has additional checksums and error correction build in. So while not impossible, it's a lot harder to get a wrong read-out that is not detected.
For CD-ROM Mode 2 the safety got exchanged for more storage space... Video CDs are more likely to use that.

@steph Don't make me buy more stuff that I won't use ever...