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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "C.Y.M." <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:12:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914111207.GR2336@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095156542.16570.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Sep 14 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 08:15, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 	printf("issuing FLUSH_CACHE: ");
> > 	if (ioctl(fd, HDIO_DRIVE_TASK, args) == -1)
> > 		printf("failed 0x%x/0x%x!\n", args[0], args[1]);
> > 	else
> > 		printf("worked\n");
> 
> Drive acked the command is all that proves. Maybe its a nop, maybe it
> does it, maybe like the last time someone engaged in this kind of "lets
> not check" approach it erases your firmware and leaves your CD-ROM drive
> defunct as the Mandrake error of the same form did.

Alan, you are sounding like a broken record :)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14  2:26 Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  6:06 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14  7:03   ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  7:06     ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14  7:15       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14  8:20         ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  8:28           ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:09         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:12           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-09-14 10:35             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:43               ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:19                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 12:21                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:37         ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-14 10:07       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:11         ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:59     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-14 13:15       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:05   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:09     ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 12:07     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-14 15:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:25       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 15:05         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:33         ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:39           ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:51             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:06               ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:45           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:31       ` Mark Lord

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