Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269313AbUINLkm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:40:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269299AbUINLih (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:38:37 -0400 Received: from out003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.103]:10164 "EHLO out003.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269313AbUINLhX (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:37:23 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:37:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Jens Axboe , "C.Y.M." , "'Alan Cox'" References: <20040914060628.GC2336@suse.de> <20040914070649.GI2336@suse.de> <20040914071555.GJ2336@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040914071555.GJ2336@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409140737.22408.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [151.205.51.156] at Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:37:22 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 39 On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:15, Jens Axboe wrote: >On Tue, Sep 14 2004, Jens Axboe wrote: >> They do support it, they just don't flag the support in the >> capability flags. And of course some don't support it at all, you >> can try this on your drives if you want to know for sure. > >Forgot to attach the code, here it is... Handy tool, thanks. [...] Running 2.6.9-rc1-mm5 ATM. This code returns, hdd is a new 200GB WD: [root@coyote src]# ./cache-flush-test /dev/hdd issuing FLUSH_CACHE: worked issuing FLUSH_CACHE_EXT: worked And hda is an older 120GB Maxtor [root@coyote src]# ./cache-flush-test /dev/hda issuing FLUSH_CACHE: worked issuing FLUSH_CACHE_EXT: failed 0x51/0x4! Is this the real cause of my aborted journal on / 3 or 4 days ago? I was running -rc1-mm2 at the time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/