Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> Rene, can you send me copies of /proc/ide/hda/identify and
> /proc/ide/hdc/identify?

Sure, attached. Quite sure you wanted hdc though? That's a DVD-ROM.

> I still would like to know why these drives don't accept flush cache 
> commands (or it is a driver's bug?).

No idea I'm afraid. Seems at least new Maxtor drives are affected. Both
the "120P0" (120G, 8M cache) and "L0" (120G, 2M cache) were reported in
this thread.

> There is a problem with new 2.6 generic ->shutdown framework,
> it doesn't differentiate between reboot / halt and power_off.
> We may try to fix it or revert to 2.4 way of doing things if
> this is too big change for 2.6.

Please also see reply to Andrew...

Rene.