On Fri, 11 May 2012 20:08:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

dennis@home wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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I agree is a good system and it reduces the probability of errors
considerably but it cannot eliminate them. Not without hardware
assistance.

The ONLY way round that one is to e.g. hold the uberblock in NVRAM

Totally untrue.
When you issue a command to a disk it will either successfully write it
or it will leave its sectors unchanged in the event of a power fail.

No it wont.


it takes some microseconds to write. If a power fail happens than, its a
toasted sector.

Never heard of capacitors?

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