Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:14:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:14:24 -0400 Received: from web40502.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.119]:43587 "HELO web40502.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:14:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20020913151906.61067.qmail@web40502.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:19:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Davis Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19) To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1031922553.9056.18.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 21 --- Alan Cox 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. Yet another thing: you are flushing the cache, by calling cleanup(), AFTER you put the disks to sleep. I think that's backward. I guess the gist of my monlogue is: has anybody reported a problem that has been solved by putting the disks to sleep?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/