Re: Does the EWF verify data written during restart or shut down?

Does the IDE driver have a feature/option to verify the data it writes?

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"Matt Kellner (MS)" <mattkell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Mark. Unfortunately, no, EWF does not validate its data. It relies on
> the OS to write the data properly, so if for some reason data is not
> written correctly or the device corrupts that data, EWF itself won't pick
> up on this.
>
> You might be able to use CHKDSK or another disk scanning utility to
> verify the integrity of the data, but this is not guaranteed and may cause
> the overlay to fill up with extra writes.
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> "Mark K Vallevand" <mark.vallevand@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Does the EWF verify data written during restart or shut down? We have
>> some Compact Flash devices that don't seem to hold data consistantly.
>> We'd like some kind of verify and retry. Is there something in the IDE
>> driver or the EWF that would do this?
>>
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>> Mark K Vallevand Mark.Vallevand@xxxxxxxxxx
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>> - Benjamin Franklin
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