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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 00:56, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> This might help SATA drives, too, but I seem to remember that the SATA 
> layer doesn't properly emulate the SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command.

That was something Mark Lord reported higher level I suspect - which is
that the scsi path is disabled before the sync cache command is sent so
the command is always errored before it hits the drive