On May 5, John F. Woods wrote
> Is the disk capacity reported by (some?) IDE drives reliable?  If so, it
> would be perfectly reasonable to check the transfer against that.  (On the
> other hand, I've used the words "IDE" and "reliable" in the same sentence,
> which is generally a grievous error...)

Actually, yes, I think. Otherwhise at last install tools would break.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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