Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works

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* Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works
@ 2005-08-12 17:34 Andrew Burgess
  2005-08-12 19:31 ` Alan Cox
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From: Andrew Burgess @ 2005-08-12 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: alan; +Cc: linux-kernel

>Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on
>your IDE drives that is expected. 

I seem to recall reading that after a power failure a modern IDE drive gets
enough power from the motor spinning down to always be able to write the cache
to the media.

Am I wrong about that or do you mean something else?

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* Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works
  2005-08-12 17:34 rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works Andrew Burgess
@ 2005-08-12 19:31 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2005-08-12 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Burgess; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 10:34 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> >Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on
> >your IDE drives that is expected. 
> 
> I seem to recall reading that after a power failure a modern IDE drive gets
> enough power from the motor spinning down to always be able to write the cache
> to the media.

Urban legend.


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