Travelstar 5K160 (PATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification
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5.8 ECC
The 10 bit 40 symbol non interleaved ECC processor provides user data verification and correction capability. The
first 6 symbol of ECC are 4 check symbols for user data and the 2 symbol system ECC. The other 34 symbols are
Read Solomon ECC. Hardware logic corrects up to 16 symbols(20 bytes) errors on-the-fly.
2 symbol System ECC is generated when HDC receives user data from HOST, and can correct up to 1
symbol(10bit) errors on-the-fly when one transfers to HOST.