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Subject: Re: Drive reset as an EH strategy when write cache is enabled
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Christoph Hellwig writes:

> If the device drops the content of the volatile write on a reset we'll
> have much problems than that..

How could it not?  The write cache is empty after a power on reset and
certainly a "hard" reset should be the same as a power on reset.