Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later

[Eric D. Mudama]

On Thu, Jun 10 at  8:11, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > /me just thinks loudly
> >
> > 'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered
> > why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number
> > of sectors.
>
> Indeed, that would be very helpful as well.

Neat idea... so you send us a LBA and a block count, and we return
good status if that region is flushed.

Each command can specify a 32MiB region, assuming a device with
512-byte LBAs.

Propose an exact implementation and an opcode...

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Eric D. Mudama
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