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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


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