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Subject: Re: raid,apm,ide, powers down too fast & corrupts raid
To: kernel@Expansa.sns.it (Luigi Genoni)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:36:40 +0100 (BST)
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> > 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)

Its actually asking the IDE disk to flush its cache yes
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