From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:32:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304050533_MC3-1-331B-7B23@compuserve.com> (raw)
John Bradford wrote:
>Did we ever establish what the best way to ensure
>that the write cache is flushed, is? An explicit
>cache flush and spin down are both necessary, but
>I had problems with drives spinning back up when
>we did the spindown first.
Disks that don't support flush should be sent an IDLE command, IIRC.
--
Chuck
I am not a number!
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-05 10:32 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2003-04-05 11:30 ` Andre Hedrick
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2003-04-05 20:17 Mudama, Eric
2003-04-05 20:54 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-05 18:34 Mudama, Eric
2003-04-05 19:52 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-05 7:31 Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-05 9:27 ` John Bradford
2003-04-05 10:57 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-05 13:09 ` John Bradford
2003-04-05 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-05 19:25 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-05 20:58 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-06 15:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-06 20:59 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-06 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-06 21:12 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-06 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-06 21:58 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-10 18:38 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-10 21:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-10 23:36 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-04-13 11:17 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-10 18:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-11 3:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-05 16:46 ` Alan Cox
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