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Old 05-12-2005, 01:46 PM
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We don't do any kind of "explicit" verification, since the disk controller itself performs that task for us.

Our general take is that you don't ask the Finder to verify things when you copy, and you don't do it when you write a file to disk with an editor (or whatever). That's because a hard disk has "built-in verification" -- its controller flags errors when they occur, on either read or write.

If we hit an error like this, we stop, because there's been a problem. But compare-after-write would both take time and cause unnecessary wear and tear on the drive.

(This is different from writing to a medium that is inherently prone to failure, like "older" Travan tapes, CDs or floppies...)

Hope that helps!
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