Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:31:59 -0400 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection |
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That all looks pretty safe to me. I wouldn't touch it.
But one could augment it with a check of the ATA revision code, and possibly exclude drives that predate the *formal* introduction of the FLUSH_CACHE command, unless their IDENTIFY data specifically claims to include it.
Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - 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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