From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"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 11:39:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <414710AA.80706@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41470F3A.1060308@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
>> Alan says it's unsafe for some of his flash cards, and I do believe they
>> say they have write caching enabled.
>
> Flash cards should be detectable --> many of them will claim
> to implement the CFA feature set.
One obvious safeguard would be to never use FLUSH_CACHE on any
drive that lacks UDMA, unless the drive claims to support FLUSH_CACHE.
That will eliminate all current FLASH memory devices.
Cheers
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 15:47 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
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 [this message]
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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