Re: Generic PCI IDE bus-mastering DMA support

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:23:09 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, mlord wrote:

>Zlatko Calusic wrote:

*snip*

>It is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED practice to turn it off again during
>shutdown,
>by using something like:
>
> ## turns off IDE write caching
> hdparm -W0 /dev/hd[a-d]

What can happen if I don' t turn off the -W flag before halt?

Andrea(S) Arcangeli