Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261786AbVEPSSP (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 14:18:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261796AbVEPSLu (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 14:11:50 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:22546 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261791AbVEPSL1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 14:11:27 -0400 Message-Id: <200505161811.j4GIB3XF010414@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Matthias Andree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 2005 10:33:30 EDT." <4288AF3A.2000008@pobox.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1115963481.1723.3.camel@alderaan.trey.hu> <20050515145241.GA5627@irc.pl> <200505151121.36243.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20050516111859.GB13387@merlin.emma.line.org> <4288AF3A.2000008@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1116267062_5623P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:11:03 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 30 --==_Exmh_1116267062_5623P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:33:30 EDT, Jeff Garzik said: > Upon power loss, at least one ATA vendor's disks try to write out as > much data as possible. Does the firmware for this vendor's disks have enough smarts to reserve that last little bit of power to park the heads so it's not actively writing when it finally loses entirely? --==_Exmh_1116267062_5623P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCiOI2cC3lWbTT17ARAl/nAKCvrVwYufm1LUz2+7+R/lzlbYvNogCghqKP YVm7Hg6xNAOESoJBSagzMhg= =hoVa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1116267062_5623P-- - 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/