>Did we ever establish what the best way to ensure
>that the write cache is flushed, is? An explicit
>cache flush and spin down are both necessary, but
>I had problems with drives spinning back up when
>we did the spindown first.
Disks that don't support flush should be sent an IDLE command, IIRC.
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