Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >.. > The extra bits were to allow the Viterbi detectors to have a longer > stream with which to work. Hard drives actually suck at storing data > and flip bits *all the time*. We have just layered so much error > correction over top that we can recover from extremely large numbers of > bit errors and still produce the original data.
Do you by any chance know any details of the error-correcting magic in common use? Hamming codes (or related) I assume, but how many errors of what type are detected? - corrrectes?, etc. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
