Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in 2.4.19 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 14 Sep 2002 20:32:07 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 19:28, Alex Davis wrote: > >Putting the drive in stand-by mode has the side effect of flushing > >the cache. > Maxtor's tech support says this is NOT true.
Hint 1. Other people make disks too Hint 2. The guys who did the code include a member of the standards committee.
> Ok how about this: I'm current testing some patches against > ide.c and friends. Why don't I just add ( and document ) a > define called NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN which would live in > ide.c. By default it would not be defined. Then I just wrap > the standby code in an '#ifndef NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN..#endif' > block.
Unless Andre agrees the change is required in the new IDE they won't be going in.
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