Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:32:03 -0500


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.

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 Chuck
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