From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Bryant Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI midlayer power management Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:55:32 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <411A1744.4020100@optonline.net> References: <411960C3.5090107@optonline.net> <1092218000.18968.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.42]:58451 "EHLO mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268048AbUHKMzd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:55:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <1092218000.18968.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: 'James Bottomley' , Linux SCSI Reflector , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek , jgarzik@pobox.com Alan Cox wrote: >On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 00:56, Nathan Bryant wrote: > > >>This might help SATA drives, too, but I seem to remember that the SATA >>layer doesn't properly emulate the SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command. >> >> > >That was something Mark Lord reported higher level I suspect - which is >that the scsi path is disabled before the sync cache command is sent so >the command is always errored before it hits the drive > > That applies to shutdown, I have no idea whether it also applies to suspend. Thanks Nathan