Re: Linux 2.6.29

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Mar 30 2009 - 16:36:08 EST


Michael Tokarev wrote:
In the SATA world, I've seen no single case. Seagate (7200.9..7200.11,
Barracuda ES and ES2), WD (Caviar CE, Caviar Black, Caviar Green,
RE2 GP), Hitachi DeskStar and UltraStar (old and new), some others --
all the same, no DPO or FUA.

If your drive supports NCQ, it is highly likely it supports FUA.

By default, the libata driver _pretends_ your drive does not support FUA.

grep the kernel source for libata_fua and check out the module parameter 'fua'

Jeff



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