Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:10:32 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final) |
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Hi Vojtech!
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> No. You're not supposed to get CRC errors with UDMA. Not a single one. > If you do, it'd mean you'd get data corruption without the CRCs. > MWDMA/16 runs at the same speed as UDMA/16 and doesn't have CRC > protection. Many people are using MWDMA/16. If your expectations (there > will be a bit error now and then) were true, many people would see > filesystem corruption.
No, you're not noticing bit flips in data blocks unless you CRC that data; and data flips are there, and more likely through memory or busses flipping bits than on disk, since disks use serious error correction mechanisms.
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