What would be the point? You would just know that the data is invalid. You couldn’t fix it
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoSo?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They probably mean EC code? That said, you can use checksums to “correct” errors if you have redundant copies of the data (by reading from the other copy if one copy has a bad checksum)
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Say checksum again
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Checksum
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GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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