Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:38:11 +0200 |
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/me just thinks loudly
'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number of sectors.
On Sunday 06 of June 2004 18:18, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5 at 11:24, Jens Axboe wrote: > >I did suggest this a few years ago. The comment I received was that > >they didn't take suggestions from OS people, if I didn't have a drive > >implementation to go with the proposal they couldn't use it for > >anything. Which was interesting, since that seemed to suggest that t13 > >had little steering in ata development, they mainly put into the ATA > >specs what drive manufacturers shoved at them. Of course this isn't 100% > >true, but it does explain a lot of things :-) > > If it helps, I'm listening. > > Suggestions/proposals for new features etc, if they're a good idea, I > can help push inside via our SATA/T13 reps. Note that as per all > long-lived specs with multiple revisions, changing the behavior of an > existing feature to something incompatible is virtually never > feasable. > > >Andre even tried getting FUA to do what we needed, no such luck there. > >Some other bigger OS wanted it differently, the rest is history. > > Lo siento, I wasn't around when that occurred. Of course, that other > bigger OS has a very large installed base, and selling a drive that > breaks it is corporate suicide.
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