Re: Disk Muncher

[pg@sff.net (Paul Guertin)]

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:28:08 +1100, richard.b@genie.com (Richard Bennett)
wrote:

> All versions of Disk Muncher disabled checksum and trailer validation,
> making disk copying completely unreliable yet to the naive seemingly
> faster and more reliable. Serves anyone right who actually used the thing.

"Completely unreliable" is an exaggeration, I think. I used Disk
Muncher quite a lot for some time, and it worked very well. In fact,
when I started using Locksmith's fast disk backup (which does verify
the checksums and prints an error diagnostic if it has to re-read a
sector due to a checksum error), it confirmed that checksum errors
were extremely rare on my system (unless the disk itself had a weak
spot).

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net