Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:05:47 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 07:06, Jens Axboe wrote: > Alan, I bet there are a lot of these. Maybe we should consider letting > the user manually flag support for FLUSH_CACHE, at least it is in their > hands then.
You are assuming the drive supports "FLUSH_CACHE" just because it doesn't error it. Thats a good way to have accidents.
The patch I posted originally did turn wcache off for barrier if no flush cache support was present but had a small bug so that bit got dropped.
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