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On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 10:53, Matthias Andree wrote: > How about this: The FLUSH CACHE command has only recently become a > mandatory command for non-PACKET devices, so there may be drives that do > implement a write cache, but do NOT implement the FLUSH CACHE -- and > still adhere to some older edition of the ATA standard. Worse than that. There are drives that did implement it - as a no-op. They didn't even say "Umm sorry no can do" > See above. Disable Write Cache would also do with recent drives. Except some drives have a habit of turning it back on quietly > If I recall correctly, Windows' shutdown procedure was at some time in > the past changed to wait a couple of seconds before switching the ATX > computers off, to allow the drives to flush their caches. I can't quote > on a KB article though. Flush on shutdown was apparently one of the windows 98 service pack/hot fix additions. - 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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