Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 13:13:32 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
They don't misreport! They comply with the spec (ATA-4 or ATA-5).

Jeff, please RTFSPEC. ;-)

Arrrrgh. Yes, you're right, and I stand corrected.

One wonders why the bits appeared at all, then... I wonder if some ATA drives _don't_ support mandatory flush-cache command? grumble.

Jeff



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