Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoUse the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoUse the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Can’t argue with that logic.
I guess I will go back to using dd to hack the Pentagon
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 10 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)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
True but that isn’t possible with just a checksum and a read only medium