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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:11:13 +0400
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 2.6] don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt on Alpha
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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> how do you flush the disks' writecache then? Halting the disk seems to
> be the only reliable way to do so.

Isn't ide_cacheflush_p() supposed to do that on modern drives?

Ivan.