basically yes. there is a CRC on the disk block right?
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? > > > > He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly > > by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but > > apparently, there is a very narrow band of "correctly" > > (perhaps even only a single state), and the vendor > > apparently does not default the chip into that state. > > I was asking a more general question about ATA -- I know that UDMA has > has some sort of CRC protection because (on other machines) I've seen > the occasional error about a bad CRC, retrying. But what I don't know > is if PIO offers the same protection. > > Drew > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
