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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Parity (Was Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS)
- References: <1992Nov7.235338.5456@ntg.com> <ping.02pu@ping.actrix.gen.nz>
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0i2o@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 09:54:33 PST
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 17
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- Quoted from <ping.02pu@ping.actrix.gen.nz> by ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Peter Ingham):
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- > People who run without any Parity should also run without backups if they're THAT
- > confident of the reliability of their systems ....
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- People who care so much about parity on machines that don't have
- it should write their critical software so it detects changes to
- the data, using commonly available CRC algorithms.
-
- An additional benefit of such care about your software is that
- you will be able to detect flipping bit errors in your secondary
- storage, transmission, etc.
-
- > Peter S. Ingham ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz
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