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SubjectRe: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c

If the drive is compliant it will issue an abort if not supported.
Otherwise one should check the identify page; however, there are several
cases where the bits are improperly set. Another double edge sword to
make the driver more interesting.

Cheers,

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

>
> John Bradford wrote:
>
>
> >Did we ever establish what the best way to ensure
> >that the write cache is flushed, is? An explicit
> >cache flush and spin down are both necessary, but
> >I had problems with drives spinning back up when
> >we did the spindown first.
>
>
> Disks that don't support flush should be sent an IDLE command, IIRC.
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> Chuck
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