On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ron Mayer wrote:
Scott Carey wrote:
Some SATA drives were known to not flush their cache when told to.
Can you name one? The ATA commands seem pretty clear on the matter,
and ISTM most of the reports of these issues came from before
Linux had write-barrier support.
I can't name one, but I've seen it mentioned in the discussions on
linux-kernel several times by the folks who are writing the write-barrier
support.
David Lang
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