On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:20:29 +0900 (JST) Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The following page is also helpful. It tells why they want to introduce > 4kb sector. > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/are-you-ready-for-4k-sector-drives/731 Thanks for the pointer. > I guess the way of correcting error is out of the specification of SATA > because the specification just define the interface. If you want end-to-end data protection, you need the interface in the spec like SCSI dif. It enables the users of storage (application, file systems, etc) to store checksum. Otherwise, even if your disk internally does checksuming, it's still possible that you could hit silent data corruption. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
