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

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jun 28 2004, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26 at  1:31, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> >Eric,
> >
> >There is no need for a new opcode.
> >The behavior is simple and trivial to support.
> >
> >If standard flush_cache/ext were to behave just like standard data_in
> >taskfile register setup, yet use a non_data command state machine it would
> >be done.
> >
> >Special case would be deal with LBA Zero and this would have to behave
> >like a complete device flush.  Since flushing sector zero is not generally
> >done ... well this would go into a design debate and it is not my issue
> >nor my desire to enter one today.
> >
> >28-bit would support max 256 sectors
> >48-bit would support max 65536 sectors
> >
> >Anyone could write this simple proposal to T13 for SATA and T10 for SAS.
> 
> True, that would work just as well.
> 
> But as you mention, it isn't necessarilly what people want or think
> they want or could actually use...

It would work, but it's still a lot nicer to not have to issue an extra
command to flush the range.

-- 
Jens Axboe