Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19

Barry K. Nathan
2002-03-11T21:49:52Z

> > For gods sake:
> >
> > 1. How is Win2000 going to work then?
>
> Because its standards compliant. It wasnt written by a half clued wannabe
> who has never read the manuals and can do nothing but call people who have
> a "liar". And a standards compliant implementation does all the right power
> management commands. Win 98 didnt quite get it right and you'll find one
> of the updates addresses IDE problems. Ironically fixing the same flush
> cache and shut down politely problem you plan to break in Linux

Windows 2000 doesn't even get this right 100% of the time either:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q281672
(I've seen this bug corrupt data in real life -- it's not just
theoretical. The really unfortunate part is that Win2K also forces the
write cache on, even if you try to turn it off, due to another bug.)

AFAIK a fix for this is planned for Win2K Service Pack 3, and WinXP works
properly (in this regard anyway) out-of-the-box.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>