11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
5:27 a.m.
On 09/11/2012 12:51 AM, John Foust wrote:
At 11:09 PM 9/10/2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
AFAIK it's used for externally-handled ECC.
I typed 576 bytes above; I meant 520 bytes. I'm sitting in a hotel at
the moment, pretty tired from driving, that's my excuse. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
He's absolutely clueless. Drives used in
EMC storage arrays, for
example, which usually contain hundreds of drives, are usually (perhaps
always) formatted to 576 bytes/sector.
Extra bytes for sector-level error correction, interpreted outside
of the drive's own hardware?