Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:39:22 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection |
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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") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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