permanent error
permanent error
[′pər·mə·nənt ′er·ər] (computer science)
An error that occurs when a sector mark on disk pack or floppy disk is incorrectly modified by writing data over it, and that can be corrected only by clearing the entire disk and rewriting the track and sector marks.
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