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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "C.Y.M." <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:06:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914060628.GC2336@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA9mKu6AlYok2efOpJ3sb3O+KAAAAQAAAAjtLAU+gqyUq8AePOBiNtXQEAAAAA@syphir.sytes.net>

On Mon, Sep 13 2004, C.Y.M. wrote:
> After installing 2.6.9-rc2 on my PC today (x86 VIA Chipset motherboard and
> Athlon XP CPU), The IDE detection during boot in probing for ide2-5 and
> displaying errors, and the hard drives that it does find are telling me that
> "hda: cache flushes not supported" (when they are displayed as supported
> when using 2.6.9-rc1.

Your drive doesn't advertise FLUSH_CACHE support, the model for when we
use these commands changed between -rc1 and -rc2. This essentially means
that you have to turn off write back caching for safe operations on a
journalled drive.

Alan, I bet there are a lot of these. Maybe we should consider letting
the user manually flag support for FLUSH_CACHE, at least it is in their
hands then.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14  2:26 Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  6:06 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-09-14  7:03   ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  7:06     ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14  7:15       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14  8:20         ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14  8:28           ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:09         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:12           ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:35             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:43               ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:19                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 12:21                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:37         ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-14 10:07       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:11         ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:59     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-14 13:15       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:05   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:09     ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 12:07     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-14 15:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:25       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 15:05         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:33         ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:39           ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:51             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:06               ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:45           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:31       ` Mark Lord

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