Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:30:35 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c |
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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. > > > > -- > Chuck > I am not a number! > - > 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/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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