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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, it's fairly hard for the kernel to do much about that - it's almost > certainly just IDE doing write buffering on the disk itself. No OS > involved. I am pushing for WC to be defaulted in the off state, but as you know I have a bigger fight than caching on my hands... > I don't know if there is any way to turn of a write buffer on an IDE disk. You want a forced set of commands to kill caching at init? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 Milpitas, CA 95035 Web: www.aslab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||
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