Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-06-10T00:34:14Z

/me just thinks loudly

'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered
why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number
of sectors.

On Sunday 06 of June 2004 18:18, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5 at 11:24, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >I did suggest this a few years ago. The comment I received was that
> >they didn't take suggestions from OS people, if I didn't have a drive
> >implementation to go with the proposal they couldn't use it for
> >anything. Which was interesting, since that seemed to suggest that t13
> >had little steering in ata development, they mainly put into the ATA
> >specs what drive manufacturers shoved at them. Of course this isn't 100%
> >true, but it does explain a lot of things :-)
>
> If it helps, I'm listening.
>
> Suggestions/proposals for new features etc, if they're a good idea, I
> can help push inside via our SATA/T13 reps. Note that as per all
> long-lived specs with multiple revisions, changing the behavior of an
> existing feature to something incompatible is virtually never
> feasable.
>
> >Andre even tried getting FUA to do what we needed, no such luck there.
> >Some other bigger OS wanted it differently, the rest is history.
>
> Lo siento, I wasn't around when that occurred. Of course, that other
> bigger OS has a very large installed base, and selling a drive that
> breaks it is corporate suicide.