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SubjectRe: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection
Mark Lord wrote:
>> Alan says it's unsafe for some of his flash cards, and I do believe they
>> say they have write caching enabled.
>
> Flash cards should be detectable --> many of them will claim
> to implement the CFA feature set.

One obvious safeguard would be to never use FLUSH_CACHE on any
drive that lacks UDMA, unless the drive claims to support FLUSH_CACHE.

That will eliminate all current FLASH memory devices.

Cheers
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
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