bit count appendage

bit count appendage

[′bit ‚kau̇nt ə′pen·dij]

(computer science)

One of the two-byte elements replacing the parity bit stripped off each byte transferred from main storage to disk volume (the other element is the cyclic check); these two elements are appended to the block during the write operation; on a subsequent read operation these elements are calculated and compared to the appended elements for accuracy.

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