On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 19:28, Alex Davis wrote:
> >Putting the drive in stand-by mode has the side effect of flushing
> >the cache.
> Maxtor's tech support says this is NOT true.
Hint 1. Other people make disks too
Hint 2. The guys who did the code include a member of the standards
committee.
> Ok how about this: I'm current testing some patches against
> ide.c and friends. Why don't I just add ( and document ) a
> define called NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN which would live in
> ide.c. By default it would not be defined. Then I just wrap
> the standby code in an '#ifndef NO_STANDBY_ON_SHUTDOWN..#endif'
> block.
Unless Andre agrees the change is required in the new IDE they won't be
going in.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Sep 15 2002 - 22:00:36 EST