Re: PATCH: Fixes for ide-disk.c

[Andre Hedrick]

If the drive is compliant it will issue an abort if not supported.
Otherwise one should check the identify page; however, there are several
cases where the bits are improperly set.  Another double edge sword to
make the driver more interesting.

Cheers,

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> 
> John Bradford wrote:
> 
> 
> >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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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group