Data Scrubbing in archives and paranoia

The general public, and many power-lusers, have different priorities. Notice how many people PREFER non-parity RAM! (cf. Macintosh) The first expansion RAM, past MB, that i got for my 5150 was ECC from Boulder Creek Systems. But, they apparently were not popular enough to survive. A popular "performance tip" from the 1980s was "Turn off VERIFY; it doesn't do anything"! (NB: "Verify in PC does NOT read the data and compare it with what it was s'posed to be. It simply confirms that there is a valid sector present, with appropriate CRC.) Early versions of "PC Tools" from Central Point set the critical error handler to automatically return with "Ignore"! I found THAT out when there was content missing from my phone and order logs! Speed and not "bothering" you with error reports seem to be a higher priority than reliability and accuracy. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com