From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19)
Date: 13 Sep 2002 17:15:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031933717.9991.4.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020913151906.61067.qmail@web40502.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:19, Alex Davis wrote:
>
> --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > To make sure they have written back their caches...
>
> This is redundant, since cleanup() flushes the write cache. Also, I spoke to a
> Maxtor tech support person and he said that putting the drives in standby mode
> does NOT flush the write cache.
Whether we should be putting drives in Standby is an Andre question I
think. One dodgy bios isnt a good reason to change it
> Yet another thing: you are flushing the cache,
> by calling cleanup(), AFTER you put the disks to sleep. I think that's backward.
That would be a bug, but the 2.4.19 IDE code isnt my problem
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-13 2:37 Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19) Alex Davis
2002-09-13 13:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 15:10 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-13 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 17:54 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-14 0:22 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-13 15:19 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-13 16:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-13 17:39 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-14 1:08 ` Alex Davis
2002-09-14 0:21 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-14 17:09 ` jbradford
2002-09-14 1:01 Alex Davis
2002-09-14 9:53 ` Matthias Andree
2002-09-14 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-14 13:42 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
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