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Re: Disk II Checksum
- Subject: Re: Disk II Checksum
- From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:59:46 -0800
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Bryan Parkoff wrote:
Do you trust checksum of Disk II?
There is one chance in 256 of an incorrect read producing
a correct checksum, but this level of integrity checking
seems to be sufficient.
I have never had a case of a sector with damaged data not
being detected by a bad checksum.
-michael
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