From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH] ide-disk.c: more write cache fixes
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:52:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517165235.GD15849@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40A7D9E6.1090900@keyaccess.nl>
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 11:15:18PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> Alan, if you know, that drive fails ide_id_has_flush_cache()?
It does. I'm getting confusing results so I need to work out what
is up.
> Note, very aware I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here (and equally
> aware I don't _want_ to be here :-) Having the drive spin down on each
> reboot is totally unacceptable though. Not only does spinning up again
> take significant time and noise, it's also actively bad for the drive.
I'd guess that the laptop may power off the drive during the reboot
cycle. If so then your suggestion makes sense
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 19:16 [RFT][PATCH] ide-disk.c: more write cache fixes Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-13 23:28 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-14 0:14 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-14 11:58 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-16 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-16 20:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-16 21:15 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-16 21:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-16 22:13 ` Rene Herman
2004-05-17 16:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-05-17 16:49 ` Alan Cox
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