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.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jul 31 2000 - 21:00:16 EST