On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 01:41, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >Does that mean we can or we can't? Is there a flush write cache operation in
> >ATA? I asume there is one in SCSI?
>
> Well hdparm has a -W option with which you can turn on/off the
> write cache. If that works (and it appears it does) you should be
> able to turn write cache off, write *one* block so that the
> cache gets flushed and turn it back on. I'm not sure how to
> test this, though.
Doesn't hdparm -W0f do the work?
Tõnu
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