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

Eric D. Mudama
2004-06-10T16:39:13Z

On Thu, Jun 10 at 8:11, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> /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.
>
>Indeed, that would be very helpful as well.

Neat idea... so you send us a LBA and a block count, and we return
good status if that region is flushed.

Each command can specify a 32MiB region, assuming a device with
512-byte LBAs.

Propose an exact implementation and an opcode...

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Eric D. Mudama
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