From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264702AbUEKM4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 08:56:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264717AbUEKM4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 08:56:51 -0400 Received: from legolas.restena.lu ([158.64.1.34]:64974 "EHLO smtp.restena.lu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264702AbUEKM4p (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 08:56:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes" From: Craig Bradney To: Rene Herman Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <40A0B7E4.7060103@keyaccess.nl> References: <409F4944.4090501@keyaccess.nl> <200405102125.51947.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <409FF068.30902@keyaccess.nl> <200405102352.24091.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <40A0B7E4.7060103@keyaccess.nl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6nEbvgABwut16BHKeW/7" Message-Id: <1084280198.9420.5.camel@amilo.bradney.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:56:38 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-6nEbvgABwut16BHKeW/7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:24, Rene Herman wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >=20 > > Rene, can you send me copies of /proc/ide/hda/identify and > > /proc/ide/hdc/identify? >=20 > Sure, attached. Quite sure you wanted hdc though? That's a DVD-ROM. >=20 > > I still would like to know why these drives don't accept flush cache=20 > > commands (or it is a driver's bug?). >=20 > No idea I'm afraid. Seems at least new Maxtor drives are affected. Both > the "120P0" (120G, 8M cache) and "L0" (120G, 2M cache) were reported in > this thread. At a guess the 80P0 drives will also be affected (80G, 8mb cache), but as yet I havent tried 2.6.6 on the boxes with them. Tonight if theres time. Craig --=-6nEbvgABwut16BHKeW/7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAoM2Gi+pIEYrr7mQRAritAKCXxMouIcF1ljgTiiadie7eZKkZlQCeJtjb ZrwM5R+ZB589+6o59jTTIrU= =mP8h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6nEbvgABwut16BHKeW/7--