From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: libata: BLKFLSBUF ioctl broken Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:20:24 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41791728.7060106@rtr.ca> References: <4178244E.1060906@rtr.ca> <20041022040423.GA28782@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:27015 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269970AbUJVOUY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:20:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20041022040423.GA28782@havoc.gtf.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Try issuing a BLKFLSBUF to a SATA drive. As of 2.6.9 this apparently returns EOPNOTSUPP to userspace. I don't have any libata controllers here to try it with. -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")