From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262001AbTDEKWS (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:22:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262003AbTDEKWS (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:22:18 -0500 Received: from siaag1ac.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.5]:42387 "EHLO siaag1ac.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262001AbTDEKWR (for ); Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:22:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 05:32:03 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c To: linux-kernel Message-ID: <200304050533_MC3-1-331B-7B23@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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!