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Re: fdisk / signature: 0xAA55
From: Stefan Drexleri (niam.tni
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Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 08:53:41 CST
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2006/3/9, Paul de Weerd <weerdweirdnet.nl>:
>
> This signature is represented (in binary) as 0b1010101001010101. The
> alternating bit pattern was thought to be a protection against certain
> failures (drive or controller).
>
> Of course, this is an i386ism (also present on amd64 I believe). Lots
> of other architectures may take different approaches.
>
Nice explanation, thank you!
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