Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:21:16 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Yep but in your original mail you suggested that we should explicitly enable > FLUSH CACHE and FLUSH CACHE EXT features - there are even no subcommands > to do this. ;-)
Whoops, you're right. I was thinking about the general protocol for features.
> I wish it was so simple. Here is an example to make it clear: > > model: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 firmware: 17.07W77 > word 0x83 is 4b01, word 0x86 is 0x0801 > > and drive of course supports CACHE FLUSH command.
What ATA revision?
Sending down opcodes because they will "probably" work isn't the best idea in the world...
Jeff
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