Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:56:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:56:14 -0400 Received: from web40502.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.119]:22422 "HELO web40502.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:56:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20020914010101.75725.qmail@web40502.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:01:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Davis Subject: Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in drivers/ide/ide.c (2.4.19) To: matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: 928 Lines: 19 >> Second, why do we need to put the disks on standby before halting? I ask because putting >To make the broken ones flush their caches... The cleanup() function in ide-disk.c will flush the write cache. Also, would someone please point me to some documentation that states the cache is flushed when the disk is put in standby: when I called Maxtor about this, they said that the cache is NOT flushed. BTW, if your disk is so broken as to require being put in standby mode to flush its write cache, then you are at great risk for data corruption. __________________________________________________ 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/