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On 9/25/2010 4:25 PM, Vladimir '=CF=86-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-1.9=
9

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.