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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management
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On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 04:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

Yes, this one's my fault.  I have patches to fix this, I never got
around to merging them.  Randy was on at me yesterday about this too. 
I'll dig them out.  (The problem is that last sync is sent in SDEV_DEL
state, so it gets rejected).

James