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permanent error

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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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Please note however that many servers cannot differentiate at this time between a temporary and a permanent error.
If there is a permanent error, it will skip the file and complete the rest of file transfers so one can fix the problems later and retry just failed transfers.
 
 
 
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