Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 Sep 2002 17:15:17 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:19, Alex Davis wrote: > > --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > To make sure they have written back their caches... > > This is redundant, since cleanup() flushes the write cache. Also, I spoke to a > Maxtor tech support person and he said that putting the drives in standby mode > does NOT flush the write cache.
Whether we should be putting drives in Standby is an Andre question I think. One dodgy bios isnt a good reason to change it
> Yet another thing: you are flushing the cache, > by calling cleanup(), AFTER you put the disks to sleep. I think that's backward.
That would be a bug, but the 2.4.19 IDE code isnt my problem
Alan
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