In a message dated 7/14/01 8:36:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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What bothers me is rumors of data corruption on big EIDE drives in Rev.1
desktops..anybody care to comment (especially on the size threshold for data
corruption)?
>>
Rumors are just that.
The move to UATA/66 (and UATA/100) solved the data corruption "problem" by
the simple expedient of every host-drive transaction being accompanied by a
checksum, something mainframe computers have been doing for three and a half
decades, if not more.
UATA/33 had no such checksum.
The EIDE on the Beige was a 16.67 MB/sec version of UATA/33.
Or, more correctly, UATA/33 was a 33 MB/sec version of EIDE.
I have never seen data corruption on a Rev. 1 Beige, whether with the
standard 4 GB EIDE drive or a replacement 16.8 GB UATA/66 drive (this was
then the largest drive made by anybody).
Likewise, I have never seen data corruption on a Rev. 3 Beige, whether with
the standard 8 GB EIDE drive (master) and a slave 16.8 GB UATA/100 drive, or
a master 16.8 GB UATA/66 drive and a slave 20 GB UATA/100 drive.
Data corruption which was directly traceable to a certain brand and model of
drive has been well documented ... particularly on the B&W.
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