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114

The analog information module 408, in one embodiment, is configured to derive analog information from repeated messages of the repetition error correcting code. In a further embodiment, the analog information module 408 may derive analog information from the repeated messages in response to the repetition code module 406 determining that the at least one ECC chunk is uncorrectable using the repetition error correcting code. In a certain embodiment, the secondary ECC module 304 may be configured to determine that the at least one ECC chunk is correctable, or to decode the at least one ECC chunk, by using the analog information with the secondary, or inner error correcting code. The secondary ECC module 304 may use the analog information to inform a decoder for the secondary/inner error correcting code, and may determine error information based on using the analog information to attempt to decode the at least one ECC chunk with the secondary error correcting code.

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