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SubjectRe: [patch 2.6] don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt on Alpha
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:11:13PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > how do you flush the disks' writecache then? Halting the disk seems to
> > be the only reliable way to do so.
>
> Isn't ide_cacheflush_p() supposed to do that on modern drives?

that command seems to be optional to implement for drives unfortionately ;(
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