WD Chip Info

Actually, I do believe they both supported the length of ECC suitable for correction, but only the 2010 could interact properly with the 1014 to perform the correction. Why the 1014 was required in place of host-driver code, I can't say. One could set the ecc length to either 32 or 56 bits, and the latter was required for correction. I didn't figure this out until the details on the PC-based WDFMT program were published, indicating that the 1010 would support either length, though it was common knowledge that only 2010 was actually error-correction-capable. It was never clear to me how the 1014 was going to help with the correction. Apparently it became no less burdensome to effect correction in the host interface code, particularly when the scotched the whole notion of bothering with correction. I don't recall any controller actually going ahead and doing it as part of the drivers. Somebody did publish an error scrubbing app-note though. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:41 PM Subject: Re: WD Chip Info that,