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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!

             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-05 10:22 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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