[ltp] HDD emergency repair (howto)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 07 May 2009, Richard Neill wrote:
> (Consider: an optical disk works even if it gets filthy - you can write  
> on it with a 4mm marker pen, and it still reads fine.) Small amounts of  

Do you have any idea how strong the error correction in optical media is?
:-)   It is not a good choice for error correction comparisons, unless you
are thinking of spacecraft communication channels :p

Look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction

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  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh