Posted by Steve King on 07/11/06 21:43

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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> "Steve King" wrote...
>> So, where did the difference lie between mini-DV and typical tape-backup
>> hardware do you think? In the tape formulations? In the way the ones
>> and zeros are put on the tape? On the tape speed? On the way the head
>> scans the tape? Something else?
>
> Media used for "hard data" budgets a significant quota of the raw
> capacity to ECC. There is strength in numbers (in this case, numbers
> of different ways of reconstructing bad data).

How can media budget anything? It is just plastic and emulsion in the tape
form. If it is the 'recording electronics', to use terms a geezer can
understand, that handles the data differently than does the electronics in a
tape backup deck I could understand that.

Steve King (at his densest)

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