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On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:31:10 -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote: >I have a question about how much data a single CRC-32 "should" be >made to cover. I have heard rumors that if a single CRC-32 is >forced to cover more than about 8 kB of data, its effectiveness >in detecting errors drops off (that is, more errors can end up >having good CRC and therefore go undetected). Does anybody have >any comments? References to published papers on the topic would >be greatly appreciated. 1394 uses such a CRC for packet data but 1394 also limits packet sizes to fairly small lengths (4K or less). I wonder if IEEE has any doc on the effectiveness of CRC algorithms? *** Hale Landis *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Niwot, CO USA *** www.ata-atapi.com *** Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org.
