From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264650AbUEJMFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 08:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264647AbUEJMFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 08:05:39 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]:2998 "EHLO smtpq1.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264650AbUEJMFi (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 08:05:38 -0400 Message-ID: <409F6FB4.50608@keyaccess.nl> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:04:04 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.6 "IDE cache-flush at shutdown fixes" References: <409F4944.4090501@keyaccess.nl> <200405100732.10363.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200405100732.10363.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: >> hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive > I note the drive is the same model here too, Rene. > > The question remains however, is our data in danger? There's a fair change that we'll be told, yes, very much so, since these drives don't seem to correctly support this life saving feature. The real answer though will be more easily deducted by calculating the ratio of unexplained file system corruptions you've had and reboots you've managed (0, that is). Rene.