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Fiber Channel drives used the DIF part of the sector, reading 526 bytes per sector rather than 512. SATA based RAID systems will often use a separate sector in the group to hold individual sector checksums. So 16 sectors, where 15 are 'data' and the 16th is crc data.


Could you tell us what RAID controllers actually does this? Because I've never seen one do checksumming at all.

Anyone that is actually available for "normal" people (which is relevant for the discussion of the article), i.e. not enterprise SAN?


All fiber channel HBAs can generate errors when the DIF don't correlate, its part of the FC spec. I don't have access to the LSI controller firmware source so I couldn't say one way or another if they do this with SATA drives. It should be possible to test though.




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