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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:40:38 -0800, Harlan Andrews wrote: >Hale, >Your response was excellent. I just have one clarification: >One should assume that all the data received by the device on that write >command was corrupt AND that it was all written to the media. >Therefore, you MUST re-write the entire address range for any write which >reports an iCRC error or else the data on the media will be corrupted. And I agree entirely. Basically you don't know what the device did with the data so it is a good idea to assume the corrupted data was written to the media. Re-writing all that data is the *only* safe thing that can be done by the host. Hale *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
