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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:19:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: raid,apm,ide, powers down too fast & corrupts raid
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I'm running Linux 2.4.18 on this system.  Has this problem been
> > addressed in any later versions?
>
> If the box is IDE then current 2.4.19pre/2.4.19-ac trees actually send
> flush commands to the IDE disks to be sure its cleared everything out. It
> might be that.

Does that work well with disk cache?
(incidentally, I do not have actually IDE disks out of production, so I
cannot test)

Luigi



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