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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > And apparently we see that there is nothing special about them... Just don't
> > enable the write cache and all should be well with a timeout of 30 seconds.
>
> Quite a few controllers enable the write cache in their bootstrap before
> the OS gets involved.
> Just "don't enable" is not an option.

I've heard some talk about drives that turn it on
automatically when they get "too busy".

regards,

Rik
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