From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: RAID controller safety
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:46:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136558807.30498.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F02026FB0@otce2k03.adaptec.com>
On Gwe, 2006-01-06 at 09:33 -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> The dpt_i2o driver (which is a scsi driver) accepts the
> SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE scsi command and passes it off to the firmware. The
> firmware respects this and flushes all the outstanding (cached)
> commands. This is true in all (kernel.org or Adaptec latest) versions.
In which case it should be fine and correct with the generic i2o_scsi as
well as that will pass through SCSI command requests directly. i2o_block
doesn't know about converting any incoming cache flush to an i2o command
block so might not.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 14:33 RAID controller safety Salyzyn, Mark
2006-01-06 14:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-06 15:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2006-01-06 16:02 ` Alan Cox
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2006-01-06 17:06 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-12-29 16:29 Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-30 16:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-30 18:58 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-30 19:31 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-12-31 0:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-31 3:25 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 3:29 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 6:55 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-31 7:57 ` Kenny Simpson
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