Re: [Nottingham] HDD bit flips: Anyone seen this before?!

From: Martin Garton <martin(a)stupids.org>
Date: Wed 27 Jul 2005 - 23:00:56 BST

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:56 +0100, Martin wrote:

> Nearly 200 files give a failed comparison. Looking at two of them, they
> have just one bit that has been flipped (md5sum and then cmp to look).

Are these bits at seemingly random positions in the files or is there
any apparent pattern? It is always exactly one bit? And is the bit
always in the same position within a byte or word or anything like that?

-- 
Martin.

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Received on Wed Jul 27 22:59:11 2005