Re: [RFT] Reed-Solomon

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:10:44AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/25/2010 4:25 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > Hello, all. I've just finished Reed-Solomon and pushedit to
> > branches/solomon. About 8 sectors (including MBR) aren't protected by
> > Reed-Solomon. Obviously it can be improved but that would be for post-1.99
> 
> So you are adding bit error detection and correction to the boot loader?
>  You realize that the hard disk already does reed-solomon right?  So a
> second layer of it doesn't seem to have much point.

You're missing context.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden