On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Dan LaBell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering if formated this way, the drive provides no error detection/ > correction,and devotes the whole physical sector to data -- Instead of 512 > bytes , and > so many bytes for ECC. I'm also wondering if I have some drives like these. > what's dmesg, say about the drives? Are they little bit taller than > standard?
T10 data integrity is the intended function, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Integrity_Field - so it is for user checksums on the sector. Justin
